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Our Lady of Prompt Succor Nursing Home Awarded a Four Star Rating!
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently created the Five-Star Quality Rating System to help consumers, their families, and care-givers compare nursing homes more easily and to help identify areas about which you may want to ask questions.
This rating system is based on continued efforts as a result of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA '87), a nursing home reform law, and more recent quality improvement campaigns such as the Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes, a coalition of consumers, health care providers, and nursing home professionals.
Nursing home ratings are taken from the following three sources of data:
- Health Inspections
- Staffing
- Quality Measures
Health Inspections -- The health inspection rating contains information from the last 3 years of onsite inspections, including both standard surveys and any complaint surveys. This information is gathered by individuals who go onsite to the nursing home and follow a specific process to determine the extent to which a nursing home has met Medicare's minimum quality requirements. The most recent survey findings are weighted more than the prior two years. More than 200,000 onsite reviews are used in the health inspection scoring nationally.
Staffing – The staffing rating has information about the number of hours of care on average provided to each resident each day by nursing staff. This rating considers differences in the level of need of care of residents in different nursing homes. For example, a nursing home with residents who had more severe needs would be expected to have more nursing staff than a nursing home where the resident needs were not as high.
Quality Measures (QMs) – The quality measure rating has information on 10 different physical and clinical measures for nursing home residents - for example, the prevalence of pressure sores or changes to resident's mobility. This information is collected by the nursing home for all residents. The QMs offer information about how well nursing homes are caring for their residents' physical and clinical needs. More than 12 million assessments of the conditions of nursing home residents are used in the Five-Star rating system.
We are very proud of our Four Star rating which is an above average rating! Only two other nursing home in all of Acadiana received a Four Star rating!
For more information go to:
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ and click on: Nursing Home Compare Five - Star Rating System