Cadia Healthcare - Springbrook

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category grades was in the area of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B. It actually fared better than most nursing homes in this category. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. There are a variety of datapoints included in this area. Most of the criteria reflect levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient more frequently.

Turning to our final category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D in short-term care. This was the nursing home's least impressive category score. Unfortunately, this category hurt the nursing home's overall profile a bit. Our short-term care ratings are vital for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. It looks like this facility was subpar in the two key staffing metrics we assessed. The facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 3.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.