St Alexius Transitional Care Unit

To go along with its favorable overall score, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many dominant scores, this nursing home was given a top-shelf short-term care grade. In fact, it received a grade of A in this area. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility also fared very well in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this category. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided vaccination data. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the final category we rated, this facility received an impressive grade grade of A- in our nursing category. With this score, the facility topped off a straight A report card. In computing a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are caring for patients and the level of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.