Sacred Heart Home

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Contributing to its fine profile, this facility also received a strong long-term care grade, with a grade of A. Facilities that receive this type of score 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 vaccination to 99.41521 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to avoid negative health outcomes for the senior population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection grades are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The fourth category we rated was short-term care, where this facility received a B+. This completed a very favorable profile. Very few facilities earned a B+ or higher in each of our categories. Our short-term care ratings are important for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.