Blessing Hospital Snu

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ in short-term care. This is as good as it gets in this category. Short-term care grades are vital for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This is based on the place's inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection grades weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was given a top-shelf long-term care grade. Indeed, this is its third most impressive category score. In that area, this facility received a score of A. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. It does not look like this nursing home submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this place 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 analyzed, this nursing home was given a very strong grade of A- in our nursing category. With this grade, the facility rounded out a straight A profile. Nursing ratings are primarily based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.