Little Sisters of the Poor

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 89.256195 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is a bit less than we expected but still a decent figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Tallying yet another strong category grade, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The fourth category we graded was short-term care, where this nursing home received an A-. This topped off a very impressive profile. Few nursing homes earned an A- or higher in every category. Our short-term care grades are presumably more critical for residents in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.