St Andrews Village-Ltc

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. In crafting our short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 7.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we gave this facility an A-. Our nursing score includes a handful of datapoints, however, the most important consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also earned top notch inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of A-. Our inspection ratings are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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.

The next category we analyzed is nursing, ended up being this facility's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that category. This was one of the few dings in an otherwise impressive profile. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.