Teresian House Nursing Home Co

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave it an A. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

We also awarded this nursing home an impressive grade in long-term care. This facility received a grade of B in this area, which turns out to be one of our better scores. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.89529 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. We scrutinized the levels of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses spent with patients, in calculating our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

The final area we scored is short-term care. We gave this facility a D for our short-term care category, leaving this as its least impressive area. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. In this facility's case, it looks like it provided less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.1 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below average.