Fox Subacute at South Philadelphia

While we were not very complementary of this facility's overall score, it actually received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. This place was hit with 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Sadly, this nursing home's next most respectable category is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this area, it still fared somewhat badly. Short-term care grades are generally used to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Based on its abysmal score in this area, we were not shocked to learn this facility offers significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility 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 subpar statistics doomed this facility's short-term care grade.

We were surprised to find that this facility also excelled in nursing. We awarded it a grade of D for that category, which is one of our best grades. There are several criteria within this category. Many of the datapoints are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The final category we analyzed was long-term care. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is an abysmal grade. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to resident care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were concerned by the fact that this facility vaccinated just 77.84431 percent of its residents against pneumonia. 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 less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.