East Jefferson Hospital Snf

To pair with a favorable overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this facility a score of A+ for its short-term care grade. In forming these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. This facility excelled in the two key staffing areas we assessed. The facility provided about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. This is typically a very favorable sign. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation with 80 percent of its residents returning home.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. We looked at the levels of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses spent with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides an incredible 6.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Out of that total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any nursing home in the country in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Switching gears to our next area, this facility was awarded a very strong long-term care score. We gave it a grade of A in this area, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.