St Andrews Village-Ltc

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this facility performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. There are numerous criteria included in this category. Many of these datapoints relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning residents even once per day.

Turning to another one of this nursing home's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection rating. Inspections proved to be one of its best category grades. We gave this facility a grade of B+. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This nursing home was given an impressive short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our better grades in that category with a grade of B+. In our short-term care assessment, we seek to create a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 4.3 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Turning to our final category, we gave this facility a grade of D for long-term care. This is the facility's worst category grade. Unfortunately, this score hurt the nursing home's overall profile a bit. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.