Mount Joseph Senior Village

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A-. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility received a strong short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our higher grades in that category with a score of B+. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is generally a useful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next category we rated was long-term care, in which this facility was awarded a C. This actually proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. This is still not a bad grade. Long-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's volume of nursing care. This means a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 98.290596 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.