Humility House

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection grade. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it a grade of A-. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's second most favorable area is long-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road score in this category. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 98.4375 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our nursing grade weighs numerous datapoints. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a low total compared with most other facilities. Lastly, while this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this statistic.

Moving on to the next area, this nursing home didn't fare very well. Due to an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is its weakest grade. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. With its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this facility is well 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 final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below the national average.