St Mary's D'youville Pavilion

On top of being a strong nursing home overall, it also received A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections were nearly flawless. Our inspection ratings are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

Contributing to its impressive profile, this facility also performed well in our short-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in the area. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is often a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. In determining a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses spend with residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Maine in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a resident even once per day.

Turning to the next area, this nursing home received an acceptable long-term care score. Even though this wasn't as impressive as a few of its other category grades, this is truly not a terrible score. In the area of long-term care, we focus on the amount of services provided by a facility, rather than more healthcare-oriented services. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 93.94435 percent of its residents. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.