St Mary Healthcare Center

St Mary Healthcare Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Lafayette, Indiana. We gave this facility an overall grade of B-. A score in this range requires some respectable marks. Based on our assessment, there are definitely much worse nursing homes out there. The best part of this nursing home's profile is is its inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. This is far better than the facility's overall grade. Inspection scores are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This nursing home also received a strong short-term care score. As a matter of fact, we gave them a grade of B+ in this area, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. In determining our short-term care grades, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is considered to be a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. It fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 54.1 percent of its residents returning home. At most facilities, less than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of those nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, this place was relatively weak in two of the datapoints we focus on, with subpar scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This facility's worst area is long-term care, which is the final area we scored. For this category, we awarded this facility a grade of D. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means the facility did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 72.12389 percent of its residents. This is several points below what we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.33 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.