St Michaels Healthcare

Even though we gave this nursing home a terrible overall score, we gave it a C for our nursing rating. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. It performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Surprisingly, we awarded this facility a C for its long-term care grade, which isn't too bad of a score. With our long-term care assessment, we analyze the sheer volume of care provided by a nursing home, along with a handful of qualitative measures. We'd have to do a bit more digging into this place before expressing a stronger opinion on this category as it looks like we are missing a few metrics in this category.

Sadly, this nursing home's next highest category was short-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this category, it still fared relatively poorly. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Considering its score in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this place is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Turning our final category of inspections, this nursing home received an F in this area. Since this data is collected by government inspectors, we heavily weight poor results in this category. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection grade. We would scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This facility had a deficiency on its inspection report. We were relieved to find that it wasn't in one of the categories that suggest that it created a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 9 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.