Holy Cross Village at Notre Dame

Holy Cross Village at Notre Dame is a small non-profit nursing home located in Notre Dame, Indiana. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-graded nursing homes we looked at. In fact, it received our very best rating. In fact, this nursing home has the prestigious distinction of being one of the three best facilities in Indiana. Finally, this appears to be a very consistent nursing home with consistently strong grades in all four of the major categories. More information about its category grades can be found below.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection scores are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't deem 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.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our nursing score is primarily based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 6.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This was one of the higher totals we found. In addition, a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. In addition to providing impressive levels of nursing care, this facility also fared well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility outpaced the national average.

The third area we looked at was long-term care. This facility performed remarkably in our long-term care category as well. We awarded them a dominant grade of A+ in this area. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 92.30769 percent of its residents, which is slightly lower than we expected. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.67 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

The final area we scored was short-term care. We awarded it another first-rate grade of A+ in this area. This wrapped up a spectacular report card of all A+'s. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is typically a solid assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. It fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 55.7 percent of its patients returning home.