St Anns Community

In addition to being a great nursing home overall, it also earned A+ inspections in recent years. Its inspections are nearly flawless. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. 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 impressive long-term care grade. Indeed, this is this nursing home's second strongest category score. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A-. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 96.615906 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a life threatening illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. 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 only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also was given a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this category. In calculating these short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next category we assessed is nursing. We awarded this facility a decent grade in that area, with a grade of B-. Even though this is not as strong as several of this facility's other scores, it is nevertheless not a bad grade. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider some quality-focused statistics. We like to look at the percent of patients who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.