Signature Healthcare of Erin

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared as well in this area. Our inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.

Adding to its profile, this nursing home also received a score of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 97.34042 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to another strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our more favorable grades in our short-term care category as well, with a B. Short-term care grades are critical for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. It does not look like this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next category we looked at is nursing, in which we gave it a strong grade of B. This facility really didn't have any weak areas. Our nursing score considers a number of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.