St Therese of Woodbury

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled at short-term care, where it received an elite grade of A+. In our short-term care category, we seek to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This nursing home is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. The facility supplied about 50% more registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical nursing home. This is what we look for when grading a facility in this category. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in this area with 71 percent of its residents returning home.

Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home also received an A+ long-term care grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to be awarded several A+ category scores. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to elite nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination record is top notch also. In fact, this facility vaccinated 98.55073 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the last category we rated, this nursing home received a very strong grade of A in our nursing category. With this grade, the facility completed a straight A report card. The nursing category assesses quite a few data points, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 4.9 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This was one of the more impressive figures we found. In addition, we found that a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of providing impressive levels of nursing care, this facility also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. With below five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category.