Divine Rehabilitation and Nursing at Shane Hill

We want to point out that this nursing home outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in this category with a grade of A. Our inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Another one of this nursing home's more favorable category grades came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 93.92523 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. There are a variety of factors included in this category. Many of the subcategories relate to nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this metric. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning a resident at least once a day.

The last category we assessed was short-term care, turned out to be this facility's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that area. This really is one of just a couple of weak links in an otherwise impressive report card. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.4 percent of its patients returning home.