With more than 20 options to choose from located in Louisville, Kentucky, St Matthews Care Center is one of the seemingly endless list of facilities. This nursing home received an overall grade of B, which is a good grade. At the end of the day, this facility looks like a solid choice for most people. This nursing home was stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any weak links in any of the major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
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St Matthews Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Jul 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Bariatric Care
- Oncology Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Lymphedema Care
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Facility Inspections
To pair with its favorable overall score, we gave this facility an A for the area of inspections. Our inspection grades are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to this facility's list of strengths, it also was awarded a fine long-term care score. We gave them a dominant strong of A- in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 57.344635 percent of its patients, which is a few points below what we expected. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
The third area we looked at is short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is more often than not a fair measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below average.
Nurse Quality
The final area we assessed was nursing. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in that area. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses were with patients, in determining our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, we like to look at quality-based statistics, such as the percentage of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St Matthews Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In St Matthews Care Center, 9.25% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In St Matthews Care Center, 2.26% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who had falls which caused major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In St Matthews Care Center, 2.21% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely the result of poor nursing care. Closer supervision can minimize the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In St Matthews Care Center, 10.69% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Unfortunately, in limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In St Matthews Care Center, 22.92% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In St Matthews Care Center, 9.25% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some experts argue that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In St Matthews Care Center, 52.36% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In St Matthews Care Center, 26.75% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In St Matthews Care Center, 32.79% of Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who were able to retain mobility. Many argue that mobility is critical to patients physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
In St Matthews Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is key to maintaining the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In St Matthews Care Center, 32.79% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In St Matthews Care Center, 7.85% of Patients
This is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In St Matthews Care Center, 86.57% of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with better rehabilitation.
Scores for Louisville, KY
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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