The Hsc Pediatric Skilled Nursing Facility

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also performed well in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the impressive quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were happy with the nursing home's vaccination statistics. For example, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This first-rate facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing grade is largely tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This place provided 8.9 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is among the better totals in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We are really impressed by both of these statistics. In addition to providing high levels of care, this place also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, it performed as well as any facility in the state in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these statistics as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care offered.

Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we were not able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our final area, this nursing home also was given an impressive short-term care score, with an A-. This wrapped up a very favorable report card. Our short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.