Hoboken University Medical Center Tcu

In addition to faring well overall, this facility also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Therefore, it earned one of our best grades in that area with an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS 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.

In addition, this facility was given elite marks in the category of short-term care. For this reason, it received one of our most impressive grades in that area with a score of A+. Our short-term care ratings are vital for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home was given a dominant score of A in our long-term care area. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping 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.

In the final category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing rating. This rounded out an elite profile. We analyzed the licensure of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in calculating our rating in this area. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, 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 metrics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.