The Episcopal Church Home is a small non-profit nursing home in Louisville, Kentucky. With an overall score of A+, this nursing home is ranked among the most impressive nursing homes we assessed. Based on our assessment, this facility is really as good as it gets. As you will see below, this nursing home performed equally well in our category grades. We gave it a straight A report card!
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The Episcopal Church Home
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- Independent Living
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- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Meal Delivery
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Optometry
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Facility Inspections
In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
An additional reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is flat out as dominant as it gets in this category. For patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 80.72289 percent of its patients. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Nurse Quality
To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home 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 generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
In our final area, this nursing home also was given an excellent short-term care score, with an A-. This rounded out a very favorable profile. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Episcopal Church Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In The Episcopal Church Home, 3.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term stay residents who developed pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In The Episcopal Church Home, 2.41% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who had falls resulting in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In The Episcopal Church Home, 11.69% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay patients who suffered from urinary tract infections. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it can be difficult to compare different nursing homes due to nursing homes having differing reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In The Episcopal Church Home, 13.92% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In The Episcopal Church Home, 19.72% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who were prescribed antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In The Episcopal Church Home, 16% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In The Episcopal Church Home, 89.25% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In The Episcopal Church Home, 10.34% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Some believe this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In The Episcopal Church Home, 22.74% of Residents
This indicates the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In The Episcopal Church Home, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In The Episcopal Church Home, 22.74% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Scores for Louisville, KY
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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