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 7.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. In calculating a facility's nursing rating, we consider the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving patients more often.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this facility received a high-end long-term care rating. We gave it an A in that area, rounding out a straight A profile. For patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.