Jones Harrison Residence

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.41003 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Compounding its dominant performance in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care rating. In computing these short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. The nursing grade is based on many datapoints, but the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Wrapping up this facility's impressive profile, we gave this facility an A- for our inspections rating. With this score, the facility completes its straight A report card. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.