The Sarah Roberts French Home

This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Adding to its profile, this nursing home also received a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.809525 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the senior population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. When computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient more frequently.

The last category we looked at is short-term care. We awarded it a C in that area. This is a decent grade in this area. In determining our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is considered to be a reliable measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.