St Regis Nursing Home

Although this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that area, which is one of our better scores. Inspection grades weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid facilities with a list of severe deficiencies flagged. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

We awarded this nursing home just a D for our long-term care grade and that actually ended up being its second most respectable score. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 96.36364 percent of its patients, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

In our next category, we gave this facility an F in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care grades are presumably most important for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. As you might expect, we discovered that this facility provides significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

The final area we assessed is nursing, in which this nursing home was given an abysmal score in this category as well. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category, which is definitely somewhat alarming. Our nursing grade includes several components, however, the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This place offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. On top of ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor marks in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in both of these data points. This is a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics helped pull down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.