Holy Family Residence

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A for that area. Our nursing grade is based on quite a few factors, but the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a resident even once per day.

Adding to its top-shelf assessment, this facility also received a strong long-term care grade, with a score of A. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.52153 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We gave this nursing home a score of A- for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. We weren't able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our last category, this facility also was given an impressive short-term care rating, with a B+. This wrapped up a very strong report card. With our short-term care assessment, we strive to forge a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.