Gateway Springs Health Campus

On top of performing well overall, this facility received a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its elite accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this facility a score of A for our long-term care rating. For patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 83.58209 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a few points lower than we anticipated but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility also was given a dominant short-term care grade. Indeed, this turned out to be this nursing home's third best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our short-term care grade is often used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services To have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Turning to the final category, this facility also performed admirably in the nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a B+ in that category. This wrapped up a first-rate profile. Our nursing grade considers many subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.