St. Joseph's Hospital

To go along with a great overall score, we gave this nursing home an A for inspections. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its first-rate resume, this facility also performed well in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in the category. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 82.75862 percent of its patients. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. In determining our nursing scores, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to the last category, this nursing home also performed well in the short-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in this category. This completed a straight A profile. With our short-term care grade, we endeavor to craft a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.