The Springs Batesville

Even though we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable short-term care score this year. We gave it a C in that area. Short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Nursing ratings are largely based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

Unfortunately, this nursing home received very weak government inspections in recent years, causing them to receive an F in our inspection category. An F in this area is typically a signal that there were red flags on the nursing home's inspection reports. For places with bad inspection grades, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 18 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

The next category we assessed is long-term care. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category, which is a very poor grade. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were not able to find information on vaccination rates. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.