Ursuline Center

To go along with a favorable overall score, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility an A+. When calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the amount of time nurses are seeing residents as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility boasts a really impressive 4.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, of which a significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of nursing care, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. It performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

In the next area we assessed, this facility was given dominant marks in the category of long-term care. For this reason, it was given one of our highest scores in that area with a grade of of A+. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to providing very impressive levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Switching gears to the final category, this nursing home was awarded a highly favorable short-term care grade. We awarded it a grade of B+ in that category, completing one of our more favorable report cards. Short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. One of this facility's strengths is registered nurse hours. This facility offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.