Leahi Hospital

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, this proved to be its best category. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Contributing to its strong profile, this facility also performed well in our short-term care area. In fact, it received a score of A- for that area. In our short-term care category, we try to create a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Tallying yet another strong category grade, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this nursing home received a high-end long-term care rating. Even though this is not nearly as good as a few of its other scores, this remains one of our more impressive scores we offer. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 95.3168 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.