Carondelet Village Care Center

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled at short-term care, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Short-term care grades are important for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Without having access to deficiency data for this nursing home, it was a challenge to fully assess the place in terms of this category.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our nursing rating considers numerous subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we graded is long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a decent grade of B-. This actually is this nursing home's least impressive category. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 95.27027 percent of its patients, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.