St Marys Center

St Marys Center is in New York, New York. This city is one of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the country with has a population of 1,577,385 people. This turns out to be a grade A facility, which is a phenomenal score. In fact, we were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it as one of the three highest graded nursing homes in New York. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's exemplary profile is its inspection rating. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given a strong short-term care grade. Indeed, this turned out to be this facility's second strongest category score. In that category, this facility received a grade of A. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is typically a meaningful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Moving on our next area, this nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care grade. In fact, it received a grade of A- in this area. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the senior population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the final category we rated, this nursing home was awarded an impressive grade grade of A- in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home finished off a straight A report card. The nursing rating includes a variety of data points. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.