St Therese Tcu North

One of the many reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received an A+ in short-term care. This is as good as it gets in this category. Our short-term care grades are crucial for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing rating is largely associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on our next category, this facility was awarded first-rate long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a score of A in this area. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home has earned near flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. This is one of the few facilities in the country to receive an A- or better in all four categories. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not consider 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.