Slovene Home for the Aged

On top of a strong overall grade, this nursing home also earned favorable short-term care grades this year. In fact, we gave it one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing score is largely associated with the nursing home'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 place 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 often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. We awarded it an impressive grade of B+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

The final area we assessed is long-term care. In this category, we gave this facility a favorable grade of B. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.203186 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.