Cathedral Health Care Center

One of the reasons this ended up being a decent facility is it received a very favorable inspection score. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. Inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 11 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple relatively minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home an B+. When calculating our nursing grades, we look at both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place 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 typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also received a strong score in our short-term care category. We awarded this nursing home a better than average grade of B in that category. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last area we rated was long-term care. For that category, we awarded this facility a C. In our long-term care rating, we focus on the sheer volume of services offered by a nursing home, along with a series of quality statistics. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 95.20958 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.