SEM Haven Health Care Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. In calculating our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. We wish we had more data for this nursing home. Without having deficiency related data, it was a challenge to grade this facility in this category.

The third category we looked at is short-term care. This facility also was given an A+ short-term care grade, rendering it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category scores. Short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The last category we scored is long-term care. This facility was given a strong nursing rating this year, with a grade of B. While this wasn't nearly as strong as a few of its other category grades, this is still one of the stronger grades for this category. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.31507 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.