St Paul Hermitage

One of the reasons this nursing home performed so well overall is it excelled in nursing, with a B+ in that area. There are many subcategories within this grade. Many of the subcategories reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable long-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of B+. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 67.391304 percent of its patients. This is somewhat below what we anticipated. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In addition, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with a score of B. In calculating these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Turning to the last category we assessed, this facility earned a good score in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we awarded it a score of B- for that category. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.