Hospitality Care Center of Her

Hospitality Care Center of Her is one of just three available facilities in Hermitage, Pennsylvania. With an overall grade of B, this is a fine facility. Based on our ratings, this facility ought to meet the needs of most people. This nursing home's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection grade, which we will address in the next section.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection scores are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We also awarded this facility a score of A- for our short-term care score. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that it performed respectably with 45 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. When determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents and the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provided 4.5 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This was one of the better figures we found. Furthermore, a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. In addition to looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good measures of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This nursing home's worst area is long-term care, which is the last area we looked at. For this category, we awarded this facility a D. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. With a long-term care grade in this range, it is surprising to discover that this facility performed relatively well in both nursing hours and its vaccination records. Indeed, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 95.789474 percent of its patients. This figure is better than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.