The Pavilion at St Luke Village

The main reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our higher scores in that category, with an A-. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home also received a strong long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded them a B in that category, which happens to be one of our better. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.784195 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. The nursing grade is based on a number of factors. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.

The next area we analyzed is short-term care, which is this facility's least impressive area. We gave this facility a grade of D in that area. Unfortunately, this category hurt the facility's overall profile to some degree. Our short-term care grade is typically used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.