Mount Olivet Home

On top of being a strong nursing home overall, it also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were nearly perfect. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also fared very well in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Very few facilities fared better in this area. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.69879 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. The nursing grade includes several factors, however, the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we graded was short-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our more favorable scores in this category, with a B. Although this wasn't as strong as a few of its other grades, it is still a perfectly acceptable score. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.