Louisville Healthcare

On top of performing well overall, this facility received a nearly flawless inspection report. Therefore, it received one of our best grades in that area with a grade of A+. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. We were not able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this nursing home was given dominant marks in the category of long-term care. Consequently, it was given one of our best grades in that area with a score of A+. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. After we finished assessing the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.45652 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to the third category, this nursing home also earned a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is generally a fair assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The last category we assessed was nursing. We gave this facility one of our higher grades in that category, with a B. Although this was not as favorable as a few of this facility's other grades, it is still a positive grade. There are quite a few subcategories included in this area. Most of these criteria are tied to staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 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 view these data points as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.