St Michaels Health & Rehab Center

This facility surprisingly received a good grade for short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B for that category, which is a solid score. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most critical for patients in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 4.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is not a bad score. Nursing ratings are largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.

Sadly, this facility received a grade of just D in our inspection category. This is well below average grade. Inspection scores weigh many items found on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. If you see too many deficiencies on the reports, this is generally a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This particular nursing home had 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed large government fines in recent years in excess of $50,000. This typically means that government inspectors became fed up after multiple years of failed health inspections.

The last area we assessed is long-term care, which is this nursing home's weakest category. We gave this facility a D in this category. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the data points we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 96.585365 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.