John T Mather Memorial Hosp T C U

On top of being an elite facility overall, this facility also performed well in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Few places fared this well in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not 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 direct your attention to the fact that this facility performed well in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an exemplary grade of A+ in this category. Our short-term care grades are crucial for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 7.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Moving on our third area, we awarded this facility a score of A for our long-term care rating. This is a very strong grade. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this place 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 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Switching gears to our next category, this nursing home received a very strong nursing score. We gave it a grade of A in that area, rounding out a straight A profile. Nursing ratings are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.