Hudson Elms Nursing Home

Although we did not rate this nursing home well overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable nursing score this year. We gave it a B in this category, which was much better than its overall grade. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Remarkably, this nursing home actually received a good score in the area of inspections as well. We awarded it a grade of B for that category, which is one of our better scores. Few facilities that were this poor overall earned multiple category grades of this caliber. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's next highest area was its short-term care score, where it was awarded a C. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most critical for residents in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

The next area we scored was long-term care. This facility received a rock bottom grade of F in that area. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We discovered that this facility administered the vaccine to just 89.52381 percent of its residents, which is well below average. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.