Blessing Hospital Snu

To go along with a strong overall score, we awarded this place an A+ for our inspection category. Our inspection ratings are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for its short-term care grade. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This facility also performed well in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A. Very few facilities received a better grade in this category. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. We weren't able to locate this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the last category we looked at, this facility received a very strong grade of A- in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home wrapped up a straight A report card. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as good indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.