St Luke's Rehab - Elks Sub Acute Rehab Unit

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an elite grade of A+ in this category. Our short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This facility excelled in two key staffing areas we assessed. It supplied about 50% more care from registered nurses and physical therapists than a typical nursing home. This is often a very favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who returned home from this nursing home. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home with 72.3 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this metric.

In addition, this nursing home also received a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Inspection grades are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspections. Places that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on our next category, this facility received a top-shelf long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in this area. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were not able to find information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last category we scored is nursing, where this nursing home was given a grade of A. This finished off a very impressive report card. Not many facilities earned an A- or better in in each area we assessed. Our nursing rating is mostly associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 11.1 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is among the better totals in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. We were really impressed by these figures. In addition to offering high levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any nursing home in the country in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.