St Augustine Home for the Aged

St Augustine Home for the Aged is in Indianapolis, Indiana. This city is one of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the country with has a population of 910,148 people. This turns out to be an A+ rated facility, which is the very best grade. Not surprisingly, this turned out to be quite a bit better than most of the nursing homes in Indianapolis. One of the best aspects of this facility's remarkable report card is its nursing rating. Nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

We also wanted to note that this nursing home excelled in our nursing category. We gave them an A+ in this area. The nursing rating analyzes many subcategories, however, the main one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 5.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which a significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found. On top of providing high levels of care, this place was also above average in several of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. For example, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These statistics are generally good indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility offers.

The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its first-rate assessment, this nursing home also was awarded a dominant long-term care grade, with a grade of A. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.62162 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.61 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to the next category, this facility also excelled in the short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that category. This completed a very strong profile. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. This facility provided more registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 26.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.