Hubbard Hill

To pair with a favorable overall grade, we awarded this facility an A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a very impressive short-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category score. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This score is typically a reliable measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We also want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received a top-shelf score of A in our long-term care category. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In our final category, this nursing home also received a first-rate nursing rating, with an A-. This finished off a first-rate report card. Our nursing rating weighs several components, however, the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning a patient at least once a day.