CathedralCare

To pair with its strong overall grade, we gave this facility an A for inspections. Our inspection grades account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Our nursing score is mostly associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 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 nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient at least once a day.

Moving on our third area, this nursing home was given an excellent short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in this category. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is more often than not a useful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

In our last area, we gave this nursing home an A for its long-term care score. This rounded out a first-rate report card. For patients looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 91.75258 percent of its patients. This is somewhat below what we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.