Catherine Kasper Home

With an address in Donaldson, Indiana, Catherine Kasper Home is the lone nursing home located in the city. Featuring an overall score of B-, this is likely a decent facility. As far as we can see, this nursing home should be a solid choice for quite a few people. The best part of this facility's report card was is its short-term care grade. short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

We want to point out that this nursing home received a far better grade for short-term care than its overall score. In fact, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A. Our short-term care grades are arguably most important for patients needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Indiana with 61.1 percent of its residents returning home.

Inspections is another area where this nursing home excelled. In fact, we awarded this facility an A- for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was assessed 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. Our nursing rating weighs several factors. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as good measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final category we analyzed was long-term care. It received an F for this category, which is a very poor grade. This is certainly a significant disappointment. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated only 86.51685 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.7 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.