Devine Health & Rehabilitation

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Inspection ratings are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also performed favorably in the category of long-term care, with top-shelf score of A- in this category. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. The nursing score assesses a handful of factors, many of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, while this place got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of our quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed well in this statistic.

This facility's worst category was short-term care, which is the final area we looked at. It received an abysmal F for this area. Despite some decent scores in other areas, this grade is still disappointing so we felt obligated to make sure you are aware. With our short-term care score, we seek to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing metrics we looked at. It provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility 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 poor statistics sunk this facility's short-term care score.