Providence Homestead

Providence Homestead is a large facility located in Lexington, Kentucky. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road score. Based on our ratings, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. The best part of this place's profile was its stellar inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in this category with an A+. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in long-term care. This nursing home received a B in this area, which is one of our better scores. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.33 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. Our nursing grade includes several subcategories, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This facility was above average in two of the major metrics we considered, with solid scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The last category we analyzed was short-term care, which is a weak spot for this nursing home. We gave this facility a D for our short-term care category. Our short-term care grade is often used to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 39.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.