Kula Hospital

Kula Hospital is the sole option we identified in Kula, Hawaii. With an A+ overall grade, we ranked this nursing home in the top ten percent of all facilities in the United States. We simply can't say enough favorable things about this nursing home. If you scroll down, you can see this place's category scores, which are equally strong as its overall score.

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we assess the amount of time nurses are seeing patients as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provided 4.5 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This was one of the more impressive figures we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. Both of these statistics are impressive. In addition to offering impressive levels of care, this place also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. For example, it performed as well as any nursing home in the state in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We look at these metrics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided.

Contributing to its elite resume, this facility also excelled in our long-term care category. In fact, it received a score of A in that category. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of really impressive nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination records was as good as it gets also. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 98.08917 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.84 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The third category we looked at was short-term care. Adding to its first-rate profile, this facility also excelled in this category. In fact, we gave it a of A in the area. In our short-term care assessment, we try to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. This facility provides more care from registered nurses to its patients than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Another impressive feature for this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an elite grade of A, wrapping up its straight A performance. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.