Mount St Joseph Nursing Home
7 Highwood St, Waterville ME 04901 · (207) 873-0705 · 92.88% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Mount St Joseph Nursing Home is a nursing home located in Waterville, Maine. This city has a population of 26,248 people. Sporting an overall grade of B+, this looks like a very good facility. Impressively, the nursing homes in Waterville received high scores across the board, making this one of the better places in Maine to find a nursing home. We were also pleased to find that this nursing home didn't have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. More information about its category grades is available below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 111 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
On top of faring well in its overall grade, this nursing home received even higher grades in the category of short-term care. In fact, it received one of our highest scores in that area with an A. Short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. It fared as well as just about any facility in Maine in this area with 64.9 percent of its patients returning home. At most facilities, less than half of their short-term patients are able to return home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive profile, this facility also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor dings are not the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. In determining a facility's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses are caring for residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides a very impressive 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is among the better totals in the nation. Lastly, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we graded is long-term care, where this facility was given a B-. This actually proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. This is nevertheless not a bad grade. In calculating our long-term care ratings, we size up the personal care received by a facility's residents. In addition to offering favorable levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 98.02817 percent of its patients. This statistic is better than many nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.61 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was not quite as favorable than its other scores in the long-term care area.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mount St Joseph Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many medical conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is key to maintaining the physical health of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better