Nazareth Home
2000 Newburg Road, Louisville KY 40205 · (502) 459-9681 · 90.84% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Nazareth Home looks like it is one of a list of 43 facilities located in Louisville, Kentucky. The city has far more options to choose from compared to most areas in the country. We gave this nursing home a phenomenal overall grade of A. As a result, it outpaced the average nursing home in Louisville by a sizable margin. This is impressive given that the city features some very solid facilities. You really can't do much better than this facility. This place also received consistently good grades in all of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 118 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home earned nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it earned one of our best scores in that category with an A+. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
We also would like to alert you to the fact that this facility was awarded an elite score of A in our short-term care category. Short-term care ratings are vital for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. It fared as well as just about any nursing home in the country in this area with 61 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also was given a dominant long-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being this nursing home's third most impressive category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A-. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to providing elite levels of nursing care and other staffing, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.18731 percent of its patients. This figure is also significantly better than the average nursing home. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Nurse Quality
In the last category, we gave this nursing home a A+ for our nursing grade. This topped off an elite report card. There are many subcategories included in this area. Many of the factors reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 5.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which was among the highest figures we found. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls which lead to major injury, this facility performed better than the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Nazareth Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by remaining in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often caused by facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this statistic is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This gauges the percentage of long-term care residents which are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. High levels of depression could imply worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term care patients that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts believe that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better