Hopemont Hospital

We also want to note that this facility excelled in our nursing score. We awarded them an A+ in this category. In determining a facility's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses commit to residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home fared well in the category of short-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a score of A- for that category, which is one of our most favorable scores. In computing our short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the most 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' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

The next category we graded is this facility's weakest category. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still gave it a decent grade of C in long-term care. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.4382 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable figure. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.