The Springs of Broadway

Although we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B+ for our inspections category. This score is much more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Our inspection scores are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. It doesn't appear that we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without having access to the information regarding deficiencies, it was a challenge to evaluate it in the area of inspections.

We awarded this nursing home just a D for our short-term care grade and that actually turned out to be its next highest category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Given its grade in this area, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we looked at. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care score.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care grade. This is not a score to write home about. Facilities that do not fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. We were not able to find information on vaccination rates. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

The last area we graded is nursing. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this area, which is a rock bottom grade. There are many criteria included in this category. Most of the factors are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is well below average. Finally, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing scores. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as good measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.