Fountain Springs Healthcare is a small nursing home located in Rapid City, South Dakota. We gave this nursing home a B- overall, which is a solid score. This is comparable with the city grade in Rapid City, which is a B. Based on all of the relevant data, there are certainly much worse nursing homes out there. This nursing home is better in some categories than others, but it did not have any weak links in any of our major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
Fountain Springs Healthcare
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with an A. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received impressive short-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a grade of B. This proved to be the facility's second highest score. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is often a useful measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
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Long-term Care Quality
The next area we graded was long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a decent grade of B-. In forming these long-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's personal care services. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 87.78281 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a decent nursing grade of B-. When calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This place averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is not an impressive total. Lastly, nursing ratings also consider quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fountain Springs Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Fountain Springs Healthcare, 6.6% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents which are suffering from pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are an indicator of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Fountain Springs Healthcare, 5.44% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are often the result of lower levels of patient supervision. Additional nurse staffing can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Fountain Springs Healthcare, 3.35% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Better hygiene protocols limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Keep in mind that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Fountain Springs Healthcare, 19.13% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Unfortunately, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Fountain Springs Healthcare, 14.63% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Fountain Springs Healthcare, 4.93% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients showing symptoms of depression. Higher rates of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Fountain Springs Healthcare, 94.89% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Fountain Springs Healthcare, 16.78% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Fountain Springs Healthcare, 21.3% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term care residents that retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Fountain Springs Healthcare, 1.08 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Fountain Springs Healthcare, 21.3 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Fountain Springs Healthcare, 10.25 Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Fountain Springs Healthcare, 79.4% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements.
Scores for Rapid City, SD
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Rapid City, South Dakota has 6 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Regional Health Rapid City HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.46 miles away353 Fairmont Blvd Post Office Box 6000 Rapid City South Dakota 57701Voluntary non-profit - Private(605) 755-1000
Nearby Dialysis
- Regional Dialysis Center2.98 miles away640 Flormann Street Suite 401 Rapid City South Dakota 57701CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (605) 755-6950
- Regional Dialysis Center - Rcrh3.61 miles away353 Fairmont Blvd Rapid City South Dakota 57701Dialysis Stations: 3 (605) 755-2165