Home of the Innocents is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Louisville, Kentucky. We gave this facility a very strong overall score of A. This is ranked among the better facilities in Louisville. This is impressive given that the city features plenty of very solid nursing homes. Even in a city offering 23 nursing homes, this nursing home stood out. Headlining this place's remarkable report card is its nursing grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.
Home of the Innocents
- Nursing Home
- For Children
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing rating features a number of datapoints. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.6 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Facility Inspections
This facility has received near flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A in this area. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our next area, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for our long-term care rating. This is a very impressive grade. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. After we finished assessing the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
In the last category, this nursing home also received an excellent short-term care rating, with a grade of B+. This topped off an elite report card. In crafting these short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. 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.
Home of the Innocents Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Home of the Innocents, 9.26% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term residents who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Home of the Innocents, 3.96% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term patients who experienced falls which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Home of the Innocents, 3.13% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint may also be skewed for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Home of the Innocents, 16.59% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Home of the Innocents, 29.93% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term patients which were administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are commonly prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Home of the Innocents, 8.23% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some experts believe that this is a reasonable measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Home of the Innocents, 89.41% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Home of the Innocents, 16.24% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Home of the Innocents, 15.8% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Home of the Innocents, 15.8 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Scores for Louisville, KY
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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