Providence Rest

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category scores came in the category of long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this category. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 95.57252 percent of its residents. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facilities next best category was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road score in this category. In our short-term care rating, we try to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.

Switching gears to the fourth category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D in our nursing category. This was the facility's least impressive category grade. Sadly, this grade hurt the nursing home's overall grade to a certain degree. Our nursing rating includes quite a few factors, many of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This particular facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This statistic is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home was above average in two of the major data points we focus on, with solid marks for avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are often reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.