Jeanne Jugan Residence

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this very important category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS did not 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.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. The nursing score assesses a handful of datapoints, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Additionally, this facility also received favorable long-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we gave it one of our stronger scores in that area, with a score of B+. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 84.745766 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly less than we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last category we looked at is short-term care, in which this facility was given a B. This actually ended up being this nursing home's least impressive category. A nursing home is doing something right when it's weakest grade still is superior to most other nursing homes. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is frequently a solid assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. It does not appear that this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we considered the number of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.