Hopkins Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

The second most favorable category we awarded this facility in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 99.19355 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. Our nursing category weighs a handful of subcategories, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, while this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it did very well in this metric.

The last area we graded is short-term care, which proved to be a weak link for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of just D in our short-term care category. Our short-term care grade is often used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. With a grade of this caliber for this category, we weren't surprised to learn this facility was below average in the two key staffing metrics we assess. In fact, it offered substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.7 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.