St. Luke's Rehabilitation Hospital

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home excelled in our inspections category, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. We awarded it an A in that category. Our inspection grades are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its first-rate resume, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care area. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that area. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Turning the page to our third category, this nursing home received an excellent long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A- in this category. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the final category we looked at, this nursing home was given a very strong grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this grade, the facility completed a first-rate profile. In determining our nursing ratings, we look at both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.