St Mary's D'youville Pavilion

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home earned an A+ inspection rating. This grade is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its top-shelf resume, this facility also performed well in our short-term care area. In fact, it received a score of A- for the area. Short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. When determining our nursing grades, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 place Maine in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving a patient at least once a day.

In the final area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our long-term care rating. This topped off a very strong profile. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 93.97163 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.