Chateau De Notre Dame

To go along with its relatively modest overall score, we awarded this facility an A for our inspections rating. This is far better than the facility's overall rating. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we still had a generally positive view of this facility's recent inspections.

This nursing home also received an impressive long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded them a B in this area, which is one of our better. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 65.31049 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly below what we expected but still a respectable figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. Our nursing score assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility provided only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these datapoints to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we assessed was short-term care, which is this facility's worst area. It received an F for this area, which is clearly a major concern. With our short-term care assessment, we try to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. With a score this poor in this area, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility was below average in many staffing figures we looked at. The facility offered substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.