Cathedral Health Care Center

On top of performing well in its overall score, this nursing home received even higher marks in the area of nursing. We gave it one of our highest grades in this category with an A-. There are several subcategories included in this category. Many of these criteria are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning residents at least once a day.

In addition, this nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the facility's government inspections. We gave it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 11 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home was awarded a strong short-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that area with a grade of B. Our short-term care grade is typically used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The next area we assessed was long-term care. This facility received a C in the category. In our long-term care category, we focus on the amount of services offered by a facility, along with a few quality data points. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to only 83.05085 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.