Selma Health and Rehab

Although we were not very complementary of this nursing home's overall grade, it earned a grade of A- in the area of long-term care. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We gave this nursing home a grade of C for inspections. This grade is more respectable than the nursing home's overall grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is not a bad score. There are a variety of subcategories within this grade. Many of these criteria are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is far below average. Finally, while this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it did very well in this metric.

The next area we looked at was short-term care. This nursing home received a poor grade of F in that area. Our short-term care scores are presumably most important for individuals requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. With a grade of this caliber in this category, we were not shocked to find this nursing home was below average in several staffing metrics we assess. In fact, it supplied far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.6 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below average.