Horizon Post Acute and Rehabilitation Center

This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we were able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. We would like to have more information about this nursing home. Without having access to complete information regarding deficiencies, it was a challenge to grade it in this area.

Another one of this facility's impressive category scores came in the category of short-term care. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The next category we looked at is long-term care. This nursing home received a favorable long-term care grade, with a B+ in the category. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid negative health outcomes for the senior population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final area we graded is nursing. In this category, we gave this nursing home a solid grade of B-. This ended up being this facility's worst category. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, although this place got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of our quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this subcategory.