Queen of Peace Residence

One of the many reasons this place turned out to be a quality nursing home is it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also received an A+ for its long-term care grade. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 90.50279 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. There are a host of subcategories within this category. Many of these criteria relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving patients at least once a day.

In the last category we scored, this facility was given a very favorable grade of A in our short-term care category. With this score, the nursing home finished off a straight A profile. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.