The Hsc Pediatric Skilled Nursing Facility

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. We weren't able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this nursing home. Without deficiency related data, it is a challenge to really grade the place in the inspections category.

Contributing to this facility's list of strengths, it also received a fine short-term care score. We gave them a strong strong of A- in this area. Our short-term care grades are considered to be most critical for patients needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility 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.

Turning to our next category, this facility was awarded a respectable long-term care grade. Even though this is not quite as good as some of its other grades, this is truly not the end of the world. In our long-term care grade, we assess the quantity of care offered by a facility, as well as a handful of quality metrics. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This place keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.