Dayspring of Miami Valley Hlth Care Center & Rehab

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection grade. Its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A+. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

One of this facility's higher category scores was in the category of short-term care. This wound up being its second best category. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. With our short-term care score, we endeavor to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.

The next category we looked at is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a decent grade of C. In the area of long-term care, we look at the amount of care offered by a facility, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is a very solid datapoint. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we rated is nursing. We awarded this facility a D for the area of nursing, rendering this its weakest area. We weighed the qualifications of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in computing our score in this area. This nursing home offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an alarmingly low total. In addition to receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents suffering pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic really pulled down this facility's nursing rating substantially.