Don Orione Nursing Home

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. There are numerous subcategories included in this area. Many of the subcategories reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, this nursing home also received top notch inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an B+. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility received a strong short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that category with a grade of B+. Short-term care scores are meaningful for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

In the final category we assessed, this facility received a very favorable grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility completed a very impressive profile. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 88.888885 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.