Vancrest of St Mary's

Vancrest of St Mary's is a small nursing home located in Saint Marys, Ohio. With an overall grade of C, this appears to be a solid nursing home. As far as we can see, this place should be a solid choice for most people. Lastly, this nursing home's ownership changed in the last year, so we will need to monitor it to confirm it maintains respectable levels of care.

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent government inspection reports in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the more 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. Based on this, we had positive view of this facility's inspections.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the number of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. At least one quarter of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. This is a high percentage of skilled nursing. In calculating our nursing grades, we apply additional weight to hours provided by more highly trained nurses such as registered nurses. Lastly, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This nursing home was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care, where this nursing home was given a B- in this category. In calculating our short-term care grades, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is considered to be a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 36.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.

Switching gears to the fourth category, this facility didn't perform well. With an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this was this nursing home's poorest category. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.449615 percent of its residents, which is higher than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.