St Andrews Healthcare

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination statistics is as good as it gets also. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 3.17 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this area, this number may be skewed for some nursing homes based on the preexisting medical conditions of residents.

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A. The nursing category weighs quite a few factors, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This place provides a very impressive 4.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is among the highest totals in the nation. Finally, this place also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any nursing home California in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these datapoints as good measures of the quality of nursing care offered.

Another strong feature for this nursing home is that it excelled in the area of inspections, with a B in that category. It performed better than most nursing homes in this category. Inspection ratings are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next area we looked at is short-term care, in which this facility was awarded a C. While this wound up being its lowest category score, this is nevertheless not the end of the world. With our short-term care category, we try to create a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that just 29.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.