Hilaire Rehab & Nursing

This facility received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially would like to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave it an A in this category. Our inspection scores are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Contributing to its profile, this facility also earned a score of B for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this area. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 98.87218 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home was awarded a favorable short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that category with a grade of B. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is considered to be a reliable assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The last category we looked at is nursing. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this area. Nursing grades are largely based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.