Presence Sacred Heart Home

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its inspection grade. This score is far better than the facility's overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home received its next best category score in the category of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a C in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable score. Our short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

The next category we looked at was long-term care, where this facility was given a grade of C in this category. In our long-term care score, we analyze the volume of care offered by a nursing home, as well as a series of quality measures. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 91.22807 percent of its residents. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final area we rated is nursing, which proved to be this facility's worst area. We gave this facility a D in that area. Our nursing score is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its below average totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home had really poor marks in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents having falls leading to serious injury. This place was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.