Consolata Home

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of A. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

We also awarded this facility a decent grade in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. Our short-term care grades are arguably more meaningful for people requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

The third area we analyzed was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of C in this category. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. We were a bit worried that this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 73.84615 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Switching gears to our last category, we awarded this facility a grade of D in the area of nursing. This was the nursing home's weakest category grade. There are several criteria included in this category. Many of the factors relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided only 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics hurt this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.