St Anthony Healthcare and Rehab Center, L

This nursing home received a nursing score which is stronger than its overall grade. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. We assessed the licensure of nurses at the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses spent with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Additionally, we also would like to point out that this nursing home was given favorable short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our higher grades in this category, with a B. This proved to be the facility's second highest score. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is more often than not a solid assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The third category we assessed was long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of C. Long-term care grades are often used to judge a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.93048 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. This nursing home also excelled at keeping 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 number.

Unfortunately, this facility did not receive a favorable inspection rating. We gave it a just D in this category. Inspection scores relate to a facility's inspections. We weight poor inspection grades heavily in our assessment. Since government inspection reports are completed by independent government inspectors, we consider this data to be very reliable. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. You should be more cautious when considering a facility that has severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This nursing home had 8 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we would like to point out that this place received significant government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This usually means that a nursing home's poor track record spanned several years.