Palolo Chinese Home is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Honolulu, Hawaii. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B, which is a quality score. Based on our assessment, this place has quite a bit going for it. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its short-term care grade, which is addressed in the next section.
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Palolo Chinese Home
- Nursing Home
- Adult Day Care
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- Recreational Therapy
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an impressive grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Nursing ratings are largely based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our stronger scores in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 98.94737 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Facility Inspections
Finally, turning to inspections, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our inspection rating is based on the nursing home's inspections. Although this is not a bad score, it is this nursing home's weakest area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being 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. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Palolo Chinese Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Palolo Chinese Home, 5.53% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who developed pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Palolo Chinese Home, 1.88% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Palolo Chinese Home, 2.81% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Better hygiene protocols can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Palolo Chinese Home, 10.74% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This measures the percent of long-term patients that are given antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Palolo Chinese Home, 8.69% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are commonly used to treat residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Palolo Chinese Home, 1.74% of Patients
This is the percent of residents who are showing symptoms of depression. Increased rates of depression may be an indicator lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Palolo Chinese Home, 95.43% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Palolo Chinese Home, 13.21% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Many in the industry argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Palolo Chinese Home, 18.67% Percentage of Residents
This metric tracks the percent of long-term care patients that retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Palolo Chinese Home, 1.11 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Palolo Chinese Home, 18.67 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Palolo Chinese Home, 11.79 Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Palolo Chinese Home, 76.75% Percentage of Resident
This is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts would argue that this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation services.
Scores for Honolulu, HI
- Overall Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of A
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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