Holzer Senior Care Center

This nursing home fared well in our long-term care category. We awarded it an impressive grade of A- for that area. This saved its overall profile. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 90.344826 percent of its patients. This is a bit less than we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's inspection grade also was better than its overall score. Due to a quality inspection report this year, it earned one of our better grades in that category with a B. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

As it turns out, this nursing home only received a grade of D for its short-term care rating, which is not an impressive grade. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Considering its score in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next area we scored was nursing, which is a weak spot for this facility. We gave this nursing home a D for the area of nursing. When computing a facility's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This facility averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This number is significantly below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.