Honey Grove Nursing Center

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the category of long-term care, we gave this facility a score of A- in that area. For patients in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 59.00621 percent of its residents for pneumonia. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the category of short-term care, this facility was given a grade of just D in that category. Short-term care grades are often employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.

Moving on to the next category, we awarded this facility a D in the area of nursing. This was the nursing home's weakest category score. Of course, this score pulled down the nursing home's overall grade a bit. The nursing score is based on several data points. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This place provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.