St Joseph Chateau

Although we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B- for inspections. This grade is better than this place's overall score. Our inspection scores are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of C in the area. The nursing rating is based on several datapoints, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is well below average. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

The next highest category we awarded this facility in any area came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a C. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.

The last category we rated is long-term care, which turned out to be a weak link for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of just D in the area of long-term care. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home administered the vaccine to just 79.57447 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.