Accordius Health at St Mary

Neither this facility's overall score nor its category scores gave us anything to write home about. This place's best category is nursing, but even there it received a D. This is still a well below average score. When determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses spend with patients as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is not great. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

As it turns out, this facility only received a grade of D for its short-term care rating, which happens to be one of its better category grades. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Considering its grade in this category, we were not stunned to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 3.8 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home received very poor inspection reports in recent years, causing them to receive a lowly F in our inspection category. An F in this area is typically a sign that there were red flags on the nursing home's government inspection reports. For facilities with bad inspection ratings, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular facility was assessed 8 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we also need to point out that this place was assessed large government fines in recent years amounting to more than $100,000. This usually indicates that a nursing home's poor performance spanned multiple years.

Moving on to our final category, this facility really didn't perform well in this category either. With an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is really as bad as it gets. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 91.12903 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.