Consolata Home

We want to point out that this nursing home outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that category with an A. Inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades 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.

Another one of this facility's better category grades was in the area of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. It actually outperformed most facilities in this category. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 84.117645 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is somewhat less than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this nursing home an D. Our nursing score is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next area we assessed is short-term care, which is this nursing home's least impressive category. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area, which is obviously very disappointing. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is frequently a solid assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.