Hirest Manor Sanitarium

We want to note that this nursing home earned a much better grade for long-term care than it received overall. we gave it one of our highest scores in that area with an A-. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 87.982834 percent of its residents. This is somewhat lower than we anticipated but still a decent figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also received favorable government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a B. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't consider 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 always a good sign.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing grade. We gave this facility a grade of D. The nursing score analyzes a handful of datapoints, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final category we assessed was short-term care, which ended up being this nursing home's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this category. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Based on its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to learn that this place was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. The final item we considered in this category is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below average.