John Paul Ii Nursing Home

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Few facilities performed better in this area. Our inspection grades are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also performed favorably in the area of long-term care, with an elite score of A in this area. For patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 93.452385 percent of its residents. This is a bit below what we anticipated but still a respectable figure. 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.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a score of D. The nursing grade includes a handful of subcategories, but the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Moving on to our final area, this facility really did not perform very well. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this was this facility's worst area. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we learned that this facility provides fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.