St Patricks Home

We want to point out that this facility outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that area with a grade of A+. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home an impressive grade in long-term care. This facility earned a B+ in this area, which turns out to be one of our better scores. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 74.49664 percent of its patients. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. In determining a facility's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we analyzed was short-term care, is this nursing home's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. This is one of the few weak links in an otherwise impressive profile. Short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. The last metric we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care grade.