Presence St Anne Center

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is it received a very impressive short-term care grade. In fact, short-term care is its best category. In that category, we gave this facility an A. Short-term care grades are often employed to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating is mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning patients at least once a day.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it excelled in the area of inspections, with a B in that category. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A few relatively minor dings aren't the end of the world.

The next area we scored was long-term care, where this facility was given a grade of B-. Even though this turned out to be its weakest category rating, this is still not the end of the world. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 91.55844 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be slightly below what we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.