St Luke's Elmore Long Term Care

St Luke's Elmore Long Term Care is a small hospital-based nursing home located in Mountain Home, Idaho. It looks like this nursing home is among the most impressive nursing homes we assessed. Being awarded an A+ in our rating system requires first-rate performance across the board. We flat out can't say enough great things about this nursing home. We also gave this nursing home phenomenal scores in each of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. The nursing grade is based on many datapoints, but the most important one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provides an incredible 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to offering high levels of nursing care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any facility in the state when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We look at these metrics as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its long-term care score. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 96.92307 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid negative health outcomes for the senior population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category we analyzed, this nursing home was awarded an impressive grade grade of A in our short-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home rounded out a straight A profile. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. This place performed better than most nursing homes in this area with 53.2 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, less than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.