Saint John Xxiii Home

In addition to faring well overall, this facility also received nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it earned one of our highest grades in that area with an A+. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints located in 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 risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing ratings are largely tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also was awarded a very impressive long-term care grade. This actually ended up being this facility's third best category grade. In that area, this facility received a score of A-. For residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 85.46512 percent of its patients, which is somewhat less than we anticipated. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last category we analyzed is short-term care, where this facility was given a B. Believe it or not, this proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. A nursing home could be doing a lot worse when their worst score still rates higher than most other facilities. Short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning 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 every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 4.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.