Damas Hospital Snf

On top of receiving a great overall score, this nursing home excelled at short-term care. In fact, we gave it an A for that category. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The last item we considered in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

To add to its high-end performance in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A for its long-term care grade. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. This place really excelled in this area.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing scores are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving residents at least once a day.

Lastly, we wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's nearly flawless inspections. We gave them an impressive grade of B+ in this category. This finishes off a very impressive report card for this facility. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, this nursing home received a category L deficiency, which was unexpected based on its inspection grade. These are the most concerning deficiencies. This category of deficiency indicates inspectors discovered a widespread deficiency putting resident safety or health in imminent danger. In spite of this major red flag, other aspects of this facility's inspection report gave us some hope.