The Hurlbut Nursing & Rehabilitation

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection grade. Its inspection score was far better than its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's second highest area came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. Our short-term care scores are arguably more critical for patients requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

This nursing home was awarded its third most favorable category score in the category of long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of C in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable score. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 74.520546 percent of its residents. This is several points lower than the national average. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we graded was nursing, which was this facility's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in that category. When determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the amount of time nurses are with patients as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics hurt this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.