Holy Cross Health Center is a small non-profit nursing home located in Manchester, New Hampshire. This facility received an elite overall grade of A, making it one of the top three nursing homes in the city. Based on our assessment, this facility is really as good as it gets. As you can see below, this nursing home also performed well in our category scores. It is hard to find any major flaws in this place's profile.
Holy Cross Health Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Church related
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection scores are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. It doesn't appear that we were able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This high end facility also excelled in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A+. Very few facilities performed better in this category. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Nurse Quality
Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. In computing our nursing scores, we factor in both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
The fourth area we graded is short-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of B+. This rounded out a very impressive profile. Few facilities received a B+ or better in all four categories. In our short-term care assessment, we attempt to create a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Holy Cross Health Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Holy Cross Health Center, 6.17% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Holy Cross Health Center, 5.16% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care. Additional nurse staffing reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Holy Cross Health Center, 2.81% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term stay residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. While more infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to facilities having inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Holy Cross Health Center, 17.01% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who are administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs are not medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Holy Cross Health Center, 16.61% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This gauges the percentage of long-term residents who were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are used to treat residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Holy Cross Health Center, 5.77% of Patients
This is the percent of patients showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Holy Cross Health Center, 95.49% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Holy Cross Health Center, 18.58% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate the decline of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Holy Cross Health Center, 22.17% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Holy Cross Health Center, 1.27 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Holy Cross Health Center, 22.17 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Scores for Manchester, NH
- Overall Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-plus
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