Accordius Health at St Mary

Even though this place's overall score was horrible, it fared well in our short-term care category. In fact, we gave it a B for that category, which is one of our better scores. This is one of the only positive things we can say about this nursing home. In computing these short-term care grades, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it earned an C. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing scores are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. While this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this subcategory. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving patients more often.

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. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.