St Camillus Residential Health Care Facility

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. Inspection scores weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Additionally, we awarded this facility a grade of B in our long-term care category. This is one of our better grades. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 95.10204 percent of its residents. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's next most favorable area is short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our short-term care scores are arguably more critical for those needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.

Moving on to our final category, this facility really did not perform well. Due to an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is its weakest category grade. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with residents, in computing our grade in this area. This facility averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.