The Estates of St Louis

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B for our long-term care rating. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 96.02649 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is more than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home really didn't perform horribly in the area of inspections. We gave it a C for that category. Other categories turned out to be the source of its rock bottom overall grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This indicates it dodged the more ominous classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Sadly, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care scores are believed to be most important for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. With a grade of this caliber for this category, we were not surprised to learn this facility was below average in several staffing areas we assess. The facility offered substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

The next area we analyzed was nursing. This nursing home received an abysmal grade of F in that category. Our nursing grade weighs several subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. This place also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than double the national average in this statistic.