Harbor House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center sits over in Hingham, Massachusetts, and it's a 142-bed skilled nursing center that usually has about 130 residents each day, and management's been under Bane Care Management LLC since July 2016, with ownership at 100% by Morris Health Management LLC, and you'll find it's affiliated with Banecare Management, which helps with various programs and oversight. Staff provide about 3.43 nurse hours per resident per day, which is a bit below the Massachusetts average of 3.9, and while care is an important focus here, reports have shown 21 deficiencies during inspections, including 2 relating to infection control, and there've also been noted issues in areas like abuse, neglect, and theft-though Harbor House has put policies in place and tries to prevent these things from happening, it hasn't always been perfect on every inspection, with some severity levels indicating more than minimal harm for a few people each time.
Harbor House has a five-star overall rating from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and you'll find a full range of nursing and post-acute rehabilitation services, as well as long-term care, short-stay rehab, wound care, diabetes care, cardiac and pulmonary care, specialized orthopedic help, post-operative recovery, and end of life care, with a Short Stay Unit for folks coming in after the hospital and needing somewhere for transitional care. The place tries to focus on well-being, offering programs such as falls prevention, reducing off-label antipsychotic use, and making sure care transitions go as smoothly as possible, and Harbor House gets involved in things like Fight the Flu Campaign, Sepsis Smart, culture change plans, and works with the Massachusetts Healthcare Safety and Quality Consortium. The staff are dedicated to providing skilled nursing, medical, rehabilitative, and patient-centered care, and the goal's to help residents maintain or even regain their function, health, and a good quality of life, always with a mind toward kindness, dignity, and respect for folks living there.
As for what it's like inside, the building's wheelchair accessible and has parking for customers, with central air conditioning, and there's a lobby, a dining room, a patio, patient rooms, a card room, a pub, a library, and the Island Lounge, where residents will see a Plasma TV, and there's a nice, sunny courtyard with a shaded patio for sitting outside. Harbor House offers the typical amenities you'd expect in a place for rehab and skilled nursing, and while no facility's without its inspection issues, this one stays involved in quality and wellness projects and works to improve safety and living conditions for its residents.
