St Martin's in the Pines

One of the reasons this place is a quality facility is that it earned an impressive inspection rating. In fact, inspections is its best category. In that area, we awarded it an A. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Unfortunately, this place was hit with a category L deficiency, which is unexpected given its inspection grade. These are the most concerning deficiencies. This category of deficiency means the government inspectors identified a widespread deficiency placing resident health or safety in immediate jeopardy. Any serious deficiency is a major concern. In spite of this major red flag, other aspects of this facility's inspection report gave us some hope.

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A-. Our nursing score is primarily based on the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning residents even once per day.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home also received a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 76.73267 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be a bit below what we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next area we analyzed is short-term care, in which this facility received a grade of C. This actually proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. This is still not a bad grade. With our short-term care score, we try to create a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.