The Springs Batesville

On top of receiving a poor overall grade, we also gave this place weak grades across the board in our categories. It received a D for its short-term care score, which was its highest category. With our short-term care rating, we strive to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this facility provides far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average nursing home. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics doomed this facility's short-term care grade.

This facility's second best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. In computing a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the amount of time nurses spend with patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This place offered a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection grade. More often than not, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection rating. We suggest you scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This facility had 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 18 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

The final area we analyzed is long-term care. This nursing home received a poor grade of F in that area. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We weren't able to find this facility's vaccination rates. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.