Hobart Nursing & Rehab

To go along with its strong overall score, we gave this facility an A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Another one of this facility's impressive category scores came in the area of long-term care. We awarded them one of our more positive scores in that category, with a grade of B. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. Nursing scores are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next category we analyzed was short-term care. For that category, we awarded this facility a C. In determining our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.