Nazareth Home

One of the many reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this very important category. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received an elite score of A in our short-term care category. In forming our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home also was superb in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 98.83382 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final category we assessed was nursing. This nursing home was awarded a better than average nursing grade this year, with a B. Even though this is not nearly as impressive as many of its other category grades, this remains one of our stronger grades for that area. When computing a facility's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses are with patients as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.