Transitional Care Unit of St Joseph

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home also earned nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that area with an A+. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was awarded an A+ short-term care grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to be awarded more than one A+ category grades. Short-term care grades are crucial for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 7.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. We looked at the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses spent with residents, in computing our grade in this category. 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 place 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 typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to the final category, this facility was awarded a strong long-term care grade. We awarded it a grade of A in this category, giving this facility straight A's. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We weren't able to locate this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.