Holliswood Center

While we did not rate this place favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable inspections in recent years. We gave it a respectable grade of B+ in this area, which was much better than its overall grade. Inspection grades weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with a list of deficiencies flagged. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility also was awarded a positive long-term care score. As a matter of fact, we awarded it a B in that area, which happens to be one of our better. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 90.21164 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly below what we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. The nursing score consists of several subcategories, however, the main one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This place offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This place fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we analyzed is short-term care. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. Short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Considering its abysmal grade in this category, we weren't surprised to find this place provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 2.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.