St Lukes Home

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned a very strong nursing grade. Nursing proved to be its best category. In this category, we awarded this facility an A. Our nursing grade includes quite a few subcategories, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning residents even once per day.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection grades are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A couple relatively minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

This nursing home also was awarded a very strong short-term care score. This actually turned out to be this facility's third best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A-. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The last area we scored was long-term care, in which this facility received a B-. Although this proved to be its weakest category score, this is still not the end of the world. Long-term care grades assess a facility's personal care rather than the skilled therapy or healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.742134 percent of its residents. This place keeps 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.