Damas Hospital Snf

This nursing home really excelled in the category of short-term care, with an A+ in this category. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is frequently a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The final measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This facility also received high marks in the category of long-term care, with top notch grade of A in this area. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. This place really knocked it out of the park in this area.

This facility also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we assessed is inspections. We were surprised to find that this nursing home received such a poor inspection grade. We gave it a just D in this category. This score is not on par with some of this facility's other category grades. Inspection scores relate to a nursing home's government inspections. Since this information is collected by independent inspectors, we weight it pretty heavily. One of the more significant factors in assessing inspection reports is deficiencies. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home had one category L deficiency, which is the worst possible category of deficiencies. This means inspectors found a widespread deficiency placing patient health or safety in imminent danger. Even a single deficiency in this category can drag a nursing home's inspection grade down. Finally, we would like to point out that this nursing home received significant government fines recently exceeding $50,000. This often signifies that inspectors became frustrated after several years of failed health inspections.