Scandinavian Home

Scandinavian Home is a small non-profit nursing home located in Providence, Rhode Island. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-graded facilities we assessed. In fact, it was given our most impressive score. As a matter of fact, we ranked this nursing home as the fourth best facility in Providence. One of the major highlights of this facility's stellar report card is its inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

In addition to performing well overall, this facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. Therefore, it received one of our best scores in that area with an A+. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 2 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 the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was awarded an A+ short-term care grade, rendering it one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+ category grades. Short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. It outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country in this area with 60.7 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

Moving on our next category, this facility received an excellent long-term care score. In fact, it received a score of A in this category. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. This nursing home was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had just 1.32 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

In the final category we scored, this nursing home received an impressive grade grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home rounded out a very impressive profile. There are numerous subcategories included in this area. Many of these criteria relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Approximately one quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are among the most highly skilled levels of nurses. These are both impressive figures, which typically correlates with higher quality care. Lastly, we also looked at nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.