Hirest Nursing Center

On top of receiving a bad overall score, we also gave this nursing home terrible grades across the board in each of the categories. It only received a grade of just D for its inspections rating, which was its best area. Inspection grades weigh many items found on the facility's inspection reports. When you find severe deficiencies on the reports, this is generally the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. Tragically, this facility had multiple category J through L deficiencies. This indicates multiple widespread deficiencies putting patient health or safety in imminent danger. Deficiencies in this category are very damaging to a nursing home's inspection grade. Lastly, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines recently amounting to over $100,000. This generally means that a poor track record has been an issue for multiple years.

Sadly, this nursing home's next most favorable score is long-term care. However, with a D in this area, it still fared somewhat badly. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 93.971634 percent of its residents, which is more than most nursing homes. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

Additionally, we gave this facility an F in the category of short-term care. With our short-term care category, we endeavor to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. With a grade of this caliber in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing figures we assess. It supplied far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

Moving on to our last category, this nursing home really didn't perform well in this area either. With an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is just about as bad as it gets. Our nursing rating looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.