St Joseph's Hospital T C U

On top of being an elite nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes performed this well in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its elite profile, this facility also performed well in our short-term care category. In fact, it received a grade of A in that area. Short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. We were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing score weighs a host of factors. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning a patient more often.

Moving on to the last area, this facility also excelled in our long-term care category. We gave it a grade of B+ for this category. This rounded out a very strong profile. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home provided vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.