Saint Simeons Episcopal Home

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another one of this facility's higher category grades came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. It actually fared better than most facilities in this area. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 75.84905 percent of its residents. This is a few points below what we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing score. In fact, we gave this facility an D. There are several subcategories within this area. Many of these factors reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This particular place averaged a meager 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This statistic is significantly below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

This nursing home's weakest area is short-term care, which is the final area we looked at. We gave it an F for this category. Even with several respectable grades in other categories, this score is nevertheless alarming so we would like to to make a note of it. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Considering its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the data we looked at. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.