Providence Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to its strong overall score, we awarded this facility an A- for our long-term care rating. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 53.535355 percent of its residents. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also wanted to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of B+ in this category. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspections. Facilities that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing rating analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we graded is short-term care. This nursing home was awarded a grade of B- in this area. Short-term care ratings are critical for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.