Hrh Transitional Care Unit(a D/B/a Entity of Hrhs)

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider 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.

This exemplary facility also excelled in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A+. Few facilities fared better in this category. Our short-term care grades are probably most important for residents in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The final item we considered in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that 7.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also was dominant in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Not many nursing homes fared better in this category. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In our last area, this nursing home also received a very strong nursing score, with a grade of A-. This topped off a straight A profile. The nursing category analyzes several data points, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.