Hope Care Center

One of the many reasons this proved to be a great facility is that it earned a very impressive long-term care rating. In this category, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 68.333336 percent of its residents. This is somewhat less than we expected but still a decent percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. We assessed the levels of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses spent with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

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.

The last category we scored is short-term care, where this facility was given a grade of B. Believe it or not, this ended up being this nursing home's least impressive category. A nursing home is doing something right when their weakest grade still rates higher than most other nursing homes. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is more often than not a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. We were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we considered the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.