Pope Nursing Home

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent long-term care score, with a grade of A. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 78.947365 percent of its patients against pneumonia. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility an A. Our nursing score is based on several datapoints, but the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Racking up yet another strong category grade, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The last category we looked at was short-term care, in which this facility received a B-. This actually ended up being this facility's weakest area. This is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. Short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home 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, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.