Hermann Hospital

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care ratings are arguably most meaningful for patients needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 7.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility also received an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was strong in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information about vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to our final category, this facility also performed admirably in the nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A for that area. This finalized a straight A profile. In calculating a facility's nursing grade, we look at the amount of time nurses spend with residents as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility 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 often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving patients even once per day.