Diversicare of St Theresa

On top of performing well in its overall score, this nursing home earned even higher grades in nursing. In fact, we gave it one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. When computing a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the number of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also excelled in inspections. We gave it an A- for that area, which is one of our best grades. This is one of the few facilities with an overall score in this range which received multiple category grades this high. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

In addition, this nursing home also was awarded favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we gave it one of our more favorable scores in that category, with a score of B. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is typically a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The last category we rated is long-term care. We awarded this facility one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of B. This nursing home turned out to be relatively strong in all areas we analyzed. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 88.29269 percent of its residents. This is slightly lower than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.