Mount St Joseph Nursing Home

In addition to having a decent overall score, we also wanted to point out that this nursing home received favorable nursing marks this year. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. This proved to be the facility's top score. Our nursing score features many subcategories. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place 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 often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also received a positive short-term care grade. Indeed, we gave them a grade of B in that area, which is one of our more favorable scores. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 4.7 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Turning to the area of health inspections, we gave this nursing home a grade of C for our inspection category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. This nursing home had 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This means that this facility avoided the more ominous classes of deficiencies. We didn't consider anything on this nursing home's inspection report to be overly concerning.

Switching gears to our last area, this facility really did not fare very well. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is its weakest area. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were concerned by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated just 58.715595 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.