De La Salle Hall

On top of performing well in its overall score, this facility earned even higher grades in the area of long-term care. It earned one of our best grades in that category with an A. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 98.039215 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also want to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. It does not look like we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this nursing home a middle of the pack score in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is often a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. We were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Turning to our final category, this facility was awarded a decent nursing score of C. The nursing grade includes a handful of data points, however, the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, although this place got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of our quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it did very well in this metric.