St Joseph's Manor (Dba Entity of Hrhs)

In addition to being a great nursing home overall, it also received A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections were nearly flawless. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its elite assessments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care rating. In forming our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Turning to another strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our better grades in our long-term care category as well, with a B+. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. After we finished assessing the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.0566 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a life threatening illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last category we assessed is nursing. We awarded this nursing home one of our better grades in this area, with a grade of B. While this isn't as favorable as a few of this nursing home's other grades, it is still a positive grade. Our nursing rating includes many subcategories, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This place was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.