St Francois Manor

This facility received a strong overall grade as discussed above, but we especially wanted to point out its excellent long-term care score. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 98.006645 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection scores are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. Nursing scores are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

The next area we graded was short-term care. This nursing home was given a favorable short-term care grade in our assessment, with a C. While this wasn't quite as strong as some of its other category grades, this is still a decent grade in that category. Our short-term care grade is often used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.