The Hurlbut Nursing & Rehabilitation

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in this area with an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

We also awarded this facility a respectable score in the area of short-term care, where it received a C. Short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. The facility supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care rating. This is well below average in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 81.31868 percent of its residents. This is significantly less than what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.

The last category we assessed was nursing, which ended up being this nursing home's weakest category. It received an F in this category, which is clearly very disappointing. Our nursing score assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.