Hill Haven Nursing Home

Hill Haven Nursing Home is one of only two facilities located in Commerce, Georgia. This nursing home is a respectable facility, with an overall grade of B-. Based on our assessment, this nursing home ought to meet the needs of many people. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's profile is its remarkable inspection score, which we will address in the next paragraph.

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we gave it an elite long-term care score. In fact, we awarded this nursing home a score of A. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.14 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

The next area we looked at was nursing, where we gave this facility an F. This was definitely one of this facility's major weaknesses. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. In addition to receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients suffering pressure ulcers and found this place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic dragged down this nursing home's nursing score substantially.

The final category we rated was short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is a poor score. This is obviously a significant disappointment. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 34.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.