Hooper Care Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a score of A- for our long-term care score. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 94.73684 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility received its next most favorable category score in the area of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this area, which is an acceptable score. Our short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. We weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The final category we looked at was nursing. We gave this facility a grade of C in this category. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below average. Lastly, we also factored in a few quality-based measures in this category. While this facility didn't rank well in terms of nursing hours, it performed much better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, this place performed better than average. This is typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented with better nursing care.