St Pauls Towers

In addition to earning a great overall grade, this facility also performed well in our inspections category, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home also was awarded a very impressive short-term care grade. In fact, this is this nursing home's second strongest category score. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A-. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Nursing grades are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we analyzed was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B-. This actually is this facility's worst area. This is still not a major area of concern. With our long-term care category, we assess the volume of care offered by a nursing home, as well as a handful of qualitative measures. One of the data points we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.