St. Luke's Rehabilitation Hospital

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this facility received an A+ inspection rating. This grade is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection scores are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. It does not appear that we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. 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 performed remarkably in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Our short-term care grades are vital for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home also was given a impressive long-term care score. In fact, this turned out to be this nursing home's third best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents 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.

In our final area, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our nursing grade. This rounded out a very favorable report card. When determining our nursing grades, we weigh both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 1.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good measures of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.