St Francis Home

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. Our inspection scores are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's next most favorable category is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this category. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The real question is whether this also impacted quality of care. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. This was more of a strength than its staffing metrics. We found that it fared well in this area with 59.3 percent of its patients returning home. This was a boost to its grade in this category.

This nursing home's next best area is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a C. With our long-term care rating, we analyze the volume of care offered by a facility, along with a series of quality metrics. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 95.48872 percent of its residents. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.42 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

The final area we scored is nursing, which ended up being this nursing home's weakest category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that area. When determining a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the amount of time nurses commit to residents as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averages 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. To pair with its below average totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility had bad marks in many of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining falls which led to major injury. This nursing home was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.