St Martin De Porres Multi-Care Center

We want to point out that this facility really outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in this area with a grade of A. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B. It actually performed better than most nursing homes in this category. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. After considering the amount of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's second least favorable score is short-term care, where it received just a D in that category. This is a well below average score. Our short-term care ratings are important for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home's weakest category was nursing, which is the last area we assessed. We gave it a lowly F for this area. Even with some respectable scores in other categories, this grade is nevertheless of a concern so we would like to to draw your attention to it. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an alarmingly low total. To pair with its below average totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had really bad marks in many of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients having falls which led to major injury. This facility was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.