St Giles Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

This facility received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not 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 always a good sign.

Another one of this facility's better category grades came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B+. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.41003 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Unfortunately, this facility's third best category was short-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this area, it still fared somewhat poorly. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. With its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

Moving on to the fourth category, this nursing home did not fare well. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this was this facility's poorest category. Our nursing grade weighs many components, but the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.