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Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-minus
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596 Sheldon Road,
Saint Albans VT 05478

(802) 524-6534

74.26% estimated occupancy 1

Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is in Saint Albans, Vermont. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the road grade. This facility has a few things going for it. The best part of this place's profile is is its inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Amputee Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • X-Ray
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Colostomy Care
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless government inspection reports in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

This facility also was given a strong short-term care score. As a matter of fact, we awarded them a B+ in that area, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Our short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-minus

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. The nursing score weighs a number of datapoints. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, nursing scores also consider quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: F

This nursing home's weakest area is long-term care, which is the last area we scored. We gave it an abysmal F in this category. Despite a few solid scores in other categories, this grade is nevertheless concerning so we would like to to make sure you are aware. Facilities that don't score well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We were concerned by the fact that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 89.43662 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: D

In Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 14.07% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of a facility's nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 3.17% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care. Closer supervision limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 3.77% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often associated with lower quality nursing care. However, this metric could also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A

In Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 7.33% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of long-term stay patients which are given antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of residents suffering from dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 13.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically given to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 7.58% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients showing depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 91.05% of Patients

This is the percent of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 19.49% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-plus

In Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 34.97% of Residents

This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: F

In Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 34.97% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 13.63% of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A-minus

In Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 85.58% of Resident

This is the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's often correlates with superior rehabilitation services.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Northwestern Medical Center IncAcute Care Hospitals 1.45 miles away133 Fairfield Street Saint Albans Vermont 05478Voluntary non-profit - Other(802) 524-5911

Nearby Dialysis

  • University of Vermont Medical Center Dialysis St. Albans1.4 miles away7 Crest Road, Suite 78 Saint Albans Vermont 05478Dialysis Stations: 9 (802) 847-5008

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=475021