Saint Anthony Rehab and Nursing Center

In addition to being a great nursing home overall, it also received A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections were nearly perfect. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its dominant resume, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care area. In fact, we awarded it a score of A for the area. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a deadly health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility also excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of A. Few facilities received a better grade in this category. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be more meaningful for individuals needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

In the last category, this nursing home also was given an impressive nursing rating, with a grade of A-. This rounded out an elusive straight A report card. Nursing ratings are largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as good measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.