St Agnes Healthcare and Rehab Center

On top of being a strong facility overall, this place excelled in our inspections category, where it earned a grade of A+. Not many facilities performed better in that area. Our inspection scores are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. It doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. We would like to have more information about this nursing home. Without deficiency related data, it ended up being difficult to really grade this facility in terms of this category.

This nursing home fared well in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a score of A- for that category, which happens to be one of our highest scores. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's third most favorable area ended up being short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a C. In computing these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. It does not look like this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final category we analyzed was nursing. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also factored some quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This facility was subpar in a few of the major areas we look at, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are typically decent indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.