Spring Hills Post Acute Livingston

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that area with an A+. Our inspection scores are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many impressive grades, this nursing home received a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a score of A in that category. Our short-term care grade is often employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The third category we graded is long-term care. This facility received an impressive long-term care grade, with a grade of B+ in the area. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last area we rated was nursing. We awarded this facility one of our better scores in this category, with a grade of B. Although this isn't on par with some of this facility's other grades, it is nevertheless a perfectly acceptable grade. Our nursing grade weighs many factors, but the main one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a patient even once per day.