Hospitality Care Center of Her

This nursing home's overall grade was propped up by a strong long-term care score. We gave them one of our better grades in that category, with a B+. In a long-term care environment, the facility'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. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 86.48649 percent of its residents. This is slightly lower than we expected. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also gave this facility a strong score in short-term care. This nursing home received a B in this area, which turns out to be one of our better scores. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is often a reliable assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Another reason we rated this facility so highly is that it earned an A+ nursing score. There are a host of factors within this category. Most of the criteria are tied to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 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 in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we assessed is inspections. We were surprised to find that this nursing home received such a poor inspection rating. We gave it just a just D in this category. This grade is not on par with some of this nursing home's other category grades. Inspection scores relate to a facility's inspection reports. Since this information is collected by government inspectors, we tend to weight it pretty heavily. Our inspection grades weigh many items on the nursing home's inspection reports. If you find too many deficiencies on the reports, this is generally a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This facility had 8 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, we need to point out that this nursing home was assessed large government fines of over $100,000. This often signifies that a nursing home's poor track record has been an issue for more than one year.