Maine Veterans Home - So Paris

On top of receiving an elite overall rating, this nursing home also received an A+ inspection grade. This is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can offer a facility. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility was given strong marks in the area of short-term care. Consequently, it received one of our best scores in that category with a score of A+. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home 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 considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home also received an A+ nursing grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. When calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the final category we looked at, this nursing home was given an impressive grade grade of A in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility rounded out a straight A profile. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Finally, 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 figure.