Holly Nursing Care Center

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility excelled in our short-term care rating, where it received a grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. Short-term care grades are important for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility received high grades in the area of nursing as well. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Our nursing score is largely based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving patients at least once a day.

This nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections. It earned a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. It received one of our best grades in that category with a grade of A-. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. It does not appear that we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. We would like to have more information about this facility. Without having complete deficiency data, it ended up being a challenge to assess it in this area.

This nursing home's least impressive area was long-term care, which is the final area we looked at. It received an abysmal F for this category. In spite of multiple favorable grades in other areas, this score is nevertheless a bit concerning so we felt obligated to draw your attention to it. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated only 70.19231 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.