Homewood Health Campus

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an B-. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our grade in this category. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this statistic. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving residents more frequently.

This nursing home's third best category ended up being its short-term care score, where it received a grade of C. Our short-term care scores are likely most critical for residents requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 4.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

Switching gears to our last area, this facility didn't perform well. Due to a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is this nursing home's weakest grade. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to just 83.78378 percent of its residents, which is somewhat alarming. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.