St Mark Village

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is as good as it gets in this area. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This facility also was awarded a dominant short-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be this nursing home's second strongest category score. In that area, this facility received a score of A. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This category is frequently a solid assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. In determining a facility's nursing grade, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are caring for patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care. We gave this facility a decent score in this area, with a B-. Even though this was not on par with several of this nursing home's other grades, it is nevertheless not a major area of concern. Our long-term care ratings are more meaningful for residents needing more traditional assistance related to personal care. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable figure. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.