New Hope Retirement & Care Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

We also gave this nursing home a favorable grade in long-term care. This nursing home received a B in this category, which is one of our better scores. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.55072 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to minimize negative health outcomes for the nursing home population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's second least favorable category was short-term care, where it earned just a D in that category. This is a well below average grade. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is considered to be a meaningful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Based on its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.9 percent of its residents returning home.

Switching gears to our next category, we awarded this nursing home a D in our nursing category. This is the nursing home's weakest category grade. Our nursing score is based on a handful of data points, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided a meager 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor marks in the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home was at about 150 percent of the national average in both of these data points. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These scores helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.