Hermann Hospital

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this facility also received an A+ inspection rating. This score is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can offer a facility. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another reason we rated this facility so highly is that it was awarded an A+ short-term care grade. This is just about as dominant as it gets in this category. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 7.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also was awarded a impressive long-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be this nursing home's third strongest category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. It doesn't look like this facility submitted data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to our last area, this facility also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A in this category. This finalized a straight A profile. We weighed the levels of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses were with patients, in determining our rating in this area. This particular nursing home provided 1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.