Diversicare of St Theresa

In addition to being a strong facility overall, this nursing home especially excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in that area. Our inspection scores are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor dings are not the end of the world.

Additionally, this facility also received favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our stronger grades in that category, with a grade of B+. Short-term care scores are critical for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. We weighed the levels of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in computing our score in this area. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving patients even once per day.

The last category we rated is long-term care. In this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. With our long-term care score, we look at the volume of care offered by a facility, along with a series of quality measures. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the vaccine to 95.336784 percent of its residents, which is an above average percentage. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.