Advanced Health Care of St George

We also wanted to point out the fact that this facility earned near flawless inspections recently. We awarded them an A+ in this area. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was awarded an A+ short-term care grade, rendering it one of the few nursing homes to be given multiple A+ category grades. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding to its fine profile, this facility also was awarded a dominant long-term care score, with a score of A. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. It does not look like this facility provided vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the last area, this nursing home also was given an excellent nursing rating, with a grade of A. This wrapped up an elusive straight A report card. In calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are with patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.