Spring Hills Post Acute Hamilton

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this area. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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.

This facility also was strong in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Only a select group of facilities performed better in this area. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

We also wanted to alert you to the fact that this nursing home received a first-rate score of A in our long-term care category. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We weren't able to track down information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the last category we analyzed, this nursing home was awarded a very favorable grade of A- in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home wrapped up a straight A report card. Nursing ratings are largely based on a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.