St Alexius Transitional Care Unit

To go along with its strong overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for inspections. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many dominant grades, this facility was given an excellent short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a score of A- in this category. Our short-term care ratings are probably most critical for patients requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

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. Nursing ratings are mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the final category we looked at, this facility was awarded a very favorable grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this score, the nursing home rounded out a very favorable report card. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, we were not able to find this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.