Holy Cross Village at Notre Dame

On top of being a strong nursing home overall, it also earned A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections are nearly flawless. Our inspection scores weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its first-rate assessment, this nursing home also was given a dominant short-term care score, with a score of A. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is frequently a fair measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. One reason for this nursing home's strong grade in this category is that it offers more care from registered nurses than the average nursing home. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Indiana in this area with 61.4 percent of its patients returning home. At most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay patients return home.

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. There are several subcategories within this area. Most of the factors are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This place boasts a really impressive 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of care, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents suffering falls resulting in major injury, this facility performed as well as any nursing home Indiana. Avoiding serious falls is typically an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to the final area, this nursing home also excelled in the long-term care category. We awarded it a grade of A- in this category. This rounded out a straight A profile. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to providing very impressive levels of nurse staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 97.76119 percent of its patients. This statistic is also much higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.37 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.