Humility House

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our long-term care grade. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the criteria we considered on top of this nursing home's quality nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.02631 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 4.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Finally, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients suffering falls leading to serious injury, this place performed as well as any nursing home in the nation.

This nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. We awarded it an impressive grade of B+ for that category, which is among our highest grades. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The final category we graded is short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a decent score in this category, with a C. Although this was not as favorable as some of its other grades, it is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. Our short-term care grades are arguably most meaningful for folks needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 39.7 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.