Hooverwood

On top of earning a strong overall grade, this facility also received an elite short-term care grade. We gave them one of our higher grades in that area, with an impressive grade of A. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Nursing scores are mostly based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility earned a good score in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We would argue that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

Moving on to our fourth area, this facility was awarded a grade of C in long-term care, which is generally a respectable rating. In computing our long-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 96.4 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.