St Giles Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

In addition, we gave this facility a grade of B+ in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our higher scores. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another concern was the F this nursing home received in the area of short-term care. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Based on its score in this area, we were not stunned to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength either for this nursing home. We found that just 45.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is below average.

Switching gears to the last category, this nursing home really didn't perform well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is this nursing home's worst category grade. Our nursing rating assesses many data points, but the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility averaged only 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is well below average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.