St Mary's D'youville Pavilion
102 Campus Ave, Lewiston ME 04240 · (207) 777-4200 · 88.57% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Located in Lewiston, Maine, St Mary's D'youville Pavilion is one of four nursing homes in the area. This nursing home proved to be a grade A facility, which is a superb rating. In addition, this nursing home is also based in a hospital, which can often mean the nursing home offers a wider array of medical services. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's remarkable profile is its inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 210 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this facility an A+ for our inspection category. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Short-term Care Quality
An additional reason we assessed this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is just about as strong as it gets in this area. Our short-term care grade is often employed to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. This place performed as well as just about any nursing home in Maine in this area with 60.1 percent of its residents returning home. At most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents return home.
Nurse Quality
This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering high levels of nursing care, this place also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With below five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is usually a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers could be avoided by offering better nursing care and a system of turning residents more often.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we graded proved to be this nursing home's poorest category. Nevertheless, even its weakest link would actually be a strength for many nursing homes. We awarded it a strong grade of B for long-term care. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.6611 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.06 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St Mary's D'youville Pavilion Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often caused by residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are routinely associated with poor nursing care. Additional nurse staffing can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who have suffered from urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indicator of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be misleading for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percent of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of residents showing symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate deterioration of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better