Holiday Hill

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a C for that category, which is one of our better scores. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were category G through L deficiencies. This means that it dodged the more serious classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

We were also surprised to learn that this nursing home received a solid long-term care rating in our assessment. We awarded it a C in this category. Our long-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated a relatively low 78.44037 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. The nursing score considers a host of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This facility provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This place performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we analyzed was short-term care, in which this nursing home was given an abysmal grade in this area as well. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is definitely very concerning. In crafting our short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Considering its score in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this place was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 2.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.