St Joseph's Medical Center

We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Inspection scores are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider 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 an excellent sign.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was given a first-rate grade of A- in our short-term care category. Our short-term care ratings are likely most critical for people in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. It does not appear that this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our nursing score is based on several factors. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In our last area, this facility also received an excellent long-term care score, with a grade of B+. This wrapped up a very favorable profile. For residents in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.