Benedictine Living Center of Garrison

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this place also earned first-rate health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better grades in this area, with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home received strong marks in the area of short-term care as well. Consequently, we awarded it one of our most favorable grades in that category with a score of A-. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is frequently a solid measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. In calculating a facility's nursing score, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are seeing residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning residents more often.

The last category we assessed is long-term care, which proved to be this facility's least impressive area. We gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is clearly a bit of a disappointment. For residents seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 98.95288 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.