Clarence Tc Ching Villas at St Francis

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ short-term care grade. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. This facility excelled at the highest level in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. This is an excellent sign. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it fared as well as just about any facility in the country with 81.6 percent of its residents returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this metric.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing rating is primarily based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 6.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This was one of the better totals we found. In addition, a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of offering high levels of nursing care, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its patients suffering falls resulting in major injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home the state.

In addition, this nursing home also earned excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best scores in that category, with an impressive grade of A-. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

The final category we looked at was long-term care. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of C. This is this facility's weakest category. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of looking at the above average volume of care provided by nurses and other staff at this facility, we also were happy with the facility's record for vaccinations. By way of example, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 95.652176 percent of its residents, which is above average. This combination proved to be successful as this facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.