Nuuanu Hale

In addition to earning a strong overall score, this facility performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. When determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are with residents and the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 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 the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home was given strong grades in the category of short-term care as well. Indeed, we gave it one of our highest grades in that area with a score of A-. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The third area we looked at was long-term care. This facility was awarded an above average long-term care score, with a B in this category. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 93.44262 percent of its patients, which is a few points less than we were hoping for. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Finally, we looked at this nursing home's inspection rating This did not end up being one of this nursing home's better grades. We gave it a C in this category. This isn't a terrible grade in this category. It simply wasn't as favorable as some of this place's other category grades. We believe that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were in categories G through L. This tells you that this facility avoided the more significant categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.