St Pauls Towers

St Pauls Towers is a small non-profit nursing home located in Oakland, California. Featuring an overall score of A, this is clearly a first-rate facility. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the country. Headlining this place's exemplary profile is its short-term care rating, which you can find in the next section.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Remarkably, this facility provides about 1.5 times as many hours of services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most facilities we assessed. This is definitely a great sign. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in California in this area with 62.9 percent of its residents returning home.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing grade is largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provides an incredible 5.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Out of that total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of care, this nursing home also performed well in some of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

The last area we scored was long-term care. This nursing home received a strong long-term care score in our assessment, with a grade of B-. Although this was not as good as a few of its other scores, this is nevertheless a respectable rating for that category. In computing our long-term care grades, we look at the personal care received by the nursing home's residents. After looking at the above average volume of nursing hours provided by this facility, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which appears to be higher than most nursing homes. This combination proved to be successful as this facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.