Hoyt Nursing & Rehab Centre

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our short-term care grade. In forming these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Our nursing grade is largely associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

The last area we analyzed is long-term care, in which we gave it a favorable grade of B. This nursing home truly did not have any weak grades. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 95.37815 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.