Premont Nursing and Rehabilitation

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Additionally, we awarded this facility a B in our long-term care category. This is one of our more impressive grades. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize negative health outcomes for the nursing home population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. There are quite a few datapoints included in this area. Most of these factors are tied to nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this statistic. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient even once per day.

The last category we rated was short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a D for our short-term care category, leaving this as the nursing home's worst category. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 3.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.