Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center
596 Sheldon Road, Saint Albans VT 05478 · (802) 524-6534 · 67.13% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Saint Albans, Vermont. It looks like this is a fine nursing home. We gave this it an overall grade of B+, which is very favorable rating. Remarkably, the nursing homes in Saint Albans received high scores across the board, making this one of the best places in Vermont to find a nursing home. Fortunately, this facility didn't have any weak links in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about its category grades can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 115 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A+. Very few nursing homes performed this well in this area. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility really excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Only a select group of nursing homes performed better in this area. In calculating our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is generally a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home provides a decent amount of services from physical therapists and registered nurses based on our assessment. The final statistic we considered in this area is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that it fared better than most facilities in this area with 55.1 percent of its residents returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Nurse Quality
In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Nursing scores are primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its residents suffering falls which lead to serious injury, this place performed better than the national average.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a grade of B-. Even though this is its worst category grade, this is nevertheless not a poor grade. In computing our long-term care ratings, we size up the personal care offered to the facility's residents. In addition to offering solid levels of nursing care and other staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 98.12734 percent of its patients. This figure is better than many nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.28 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Saint Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric may be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for treating several conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents who were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients showing signs of depression. Increased rates of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percent of long-term residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better