St. Anne's Home

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in long-term care, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 97.560974 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In addition, this nursing home also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that area with an A. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. The nursing rating includes several subcategories. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving residents more frequently.

The next area we looked at was short-term care. This facility was awarded a very good short-term care score in our assessment, with a grade of B-. While this isn't nearly as elite as many of its other category grades, this is still a decent grade in that area. In determining our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This area is generally a fair measure of a facility's rehabilitation. We were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this nursing home. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.