New Horizons Care Center

While we did not rate this nursing home well overall, we wanted to note its decent government inspections in recent years. We gave it a somewhat respectable grade of B- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an B-. There are a number of criteria within this area. Many of the criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

The next category we assessed was short-term care, where this facility received a grade of B- in this category. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

Moving on to our last area, this nursing home received an acceptable long-term care score of B-. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.51219 percent of its residents, which is higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.