St Camillus Residential Health Care Facility

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among the reasons we rated this nursing home so well is that it was awarded a strong long-term care grade. Indeed, long-term care ended up being its second highest category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a score of A-. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 96.32353 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 2.34 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than most facilities due to it having some more complex patients.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. Nursing grades are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This facility provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as good measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The next area we scored is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in that area. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this category. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This place performed decently in this area, with 45.4 percent of its residents returning home.