De La Salle Hall

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also fared well in the area of long-term care, where it earned a grade of A. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.9011 percent of its patients. This is a great way to avoid negative health outcomes for the senior population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. It doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was given a first-rate short-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be this facility's third strongest category score. In that category, this facility received a score of A-. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation To provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Turning to our final category, this facility was awarded an extremely favorable nursing rating. In fact, we gave it an A- in that category, rounding out a straight A profile. Our nursing rating weighs a handful of data points, however, the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place New Jersey in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving residents more often.