Devine Health & Rehabilitation

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility received even higher grades in long-term care. It received one of our best grades in that category with an A. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to another one of this place's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection score. Inspections turned out to be one of its best category grades. We gave this facility an A. Inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. Our nursing grade assesses many datapoints, many of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is far below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It scored well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

The last area we graded was short-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. It received a lowly F in this area, which is obviously somewhat disappointing. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. We found that this nursing home was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below average.