Casa Promesa

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state 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 by employing a policy of turning residents more often.

This facility received an impressive long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that area with a score of B+. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 93.311035 percent of its residents. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home also was awarded a favorable short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B in this category. In forming these short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Finally, we also gave this facility a score of B for our inspections category. This facility didn't have any major weak links. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.