St Elizabeth Care Center

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection grade. Its inspection score was far better than its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave it a grade of A-. Our inspection scores are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This facility also received a favorable score in our long-term care category. We awarded this nursing home a better than average grade of B in this area. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 96.63461 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. There are a host of criteria included in this category. Many of the criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, while this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this area.

This nursing home's least impressive category was short-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a D. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is often a useful assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. It appears that this facility was below average in the two key staffing metrics we assessed. The facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.