Providence Mount St Vent

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home excelled in our shot-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our short-term care grade is often employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our nursing grade is primarily based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home is also above average in the category of long-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.04618 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Finally, we found that this nursing home has received favorable inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave it a B in this area. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.