Hope Care Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating is based on numerous factors. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning residents even once per day.

This exemplary facility also performed remarkably in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A+. Very few nursing homes performed better in this area. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 71.15385 percent of its patients, which is a bit less than we anticipated. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, this facility also earned a nearly flawless government inspection report. It received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category we looked at, this facility was awarded an impressive grade grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility rounded out a straight A profile. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is considered to be a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.