Devine Health & Rehabilitation

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home earned high scores in our nursing category as well. It received one of our highest grades in that category with an C. Our nursing score is primarily associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

The third category we graded is long-term care, where this facility received a C in this area. Our long-term care scores are more meaningful for those in need of more conventional services associated with personal care. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's least impressive category is short-term care, which is the last category we assessed. In this category, we gave this facility a grade of just D. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be most important for individuals requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. 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 metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics doomed this nursing home's short-term care score.