Vancrest Health Care Center of Ho

On top of earning a strong overall rating, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the nursing home's recent government inspections. In fact, we gave it an A for this category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home really excelled in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A-. Only a select group of facilities performed more favorably in this category. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Additionally, this facility also was given favorable short-term care grades this year. Indeed, we gave them one of our stronger grades in that category, with a grade of B. Our short-term care ratings are critical for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next area we scored was nursing, where this facility was given a C. Although this turned out to be its poorest category score, this is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. Our nursing score is based on a host of data points. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, our nursing ratings also consider some quality-focused measures. We especially like to look at the percentage of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care, since superior care tends to reduce these problems.