St Therese Home

In addition to being a first-rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of A+. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is more often than not a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

In addition, this facility received high marks in the area of nursing. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Our nursing rating is largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving a patient at least once a day.

This nursing home also received a nearly flawless inspection report. It received one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The next category we scored is long-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our more favorable grades in this category, with a grade of B. Even though this is not as strong as many of its other grades, it is nevertheless a fine grade. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 96.137344 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.