Hirest Manor Sanitarium

This facility really fared well in our long-term care category. We gave it an A- for that area. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 85.40772 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an B+. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. Our nursing rating analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This place offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This facility performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these datapoints to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we assessed is short-term care, ended up being this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this facility a D in this area. This really was one of just a few weak links on a quality profile. Short-term care grades are meaningful for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as 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 patients that were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.