Providence Benedictine Nursing Center

Although we did not have many favorable things to say about this place's overall grade, it earned a somewhat respectable inspection report this year. It received a decent grade in that area with a B-. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. When calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

We also gave this nursing home a solid score in the area of short-term care, with a B-. Our short-term care grade is often used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 7.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.

The final category we scored was long-term care, which turned out to be a low point for this nursing home. We awarded this nursing home a D in long-term care. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 95.02487 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this place also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.