Hospitality Care Center of Her

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our nursing rating. Nursing scores are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also fared very well in the category of long-term care, where it received a score of A. Very few nursing homes performed better in this category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.4127 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Building on its fine profile, this nursing home also received a dominant short-term care grade, with a score of A-. In calculating our short-term care grades, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is generally a useful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Completing its excellent profile, this facility also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an impressive grade of B+ for that category. Our inspection grades are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.