Ascension Living Sherbrooke Village

To go along with its impressive overall score, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our nursing grade. The nursing rating consists of several subcategories, however, the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning patients at least once a day.

Among the reasons we graded this nursing home so well is that it received a dominant short-term care grade. Indeed, short-term care is its second most favorable category score. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A-. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home was awarded an impressive long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category with a score of B+. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 92.27642 percent of its patients, which is slightly below what we anticipated. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Finally, we also awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our inspections category. This facility didn't have any major weak links. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor dings aren't something to panic about.