St Clare Health and Rehab

To pair with a great overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many dominant grades, this facility was awarded first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, it received a grade of A- in this area. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 81.11111 percent of its patients, which is slightly lower than we expected. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. The nursing grade is based on quite a few components, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving a resident more often.

The next category we scored is short-term care, where this nursing home received a B. Believe it or not, this turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive category. A nursing home could be doing a lot worse when their lowest score still beats out most facilities. Our short-term care scores are likely most important for folks needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.