Catholic Memorial Home

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A- for short-term care. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home also was given a favorable long-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this category. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 94.51219 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a deadly condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our nursing category assesses a handful of datapoints, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In the final category we looked at, we found that this facility received a solid inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from government inspectors. It earned a decent score in inspections with a grade of B. This facility didn't have any major weaknesses. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.