Providence Child Center

To pair with its excellent overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for our nursing rating. There are a host of datapoints within this category. Most of the subcategories are tied to staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home 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 often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving a patient more frequently.

On the list of its many impressive grades, this facility received a strong short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in this area. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility also performed well in the area of inspections. It earned a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a grade of B+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through 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. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Moving on to the last category, this nursing home was given a high-end long-term care score. We gave it a B+ in that category, wrapping up one of our finer profiles. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.113205 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to minimize negative health outcomes for the nursing home population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.