The Blossoms Rehab & Nursing Center at Hot Springs

This nursing home's best category grade came in the area of inspections. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we still had a generally positive view of this facility's inspections.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an B-. We looked at the levels of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses spent with patients, in determining our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

This facility's third best area turned out to be long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of C. Long-term care grades are typically used to judge a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. It does not appear that this nursing home provided information on its vaccination levels. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Our next area is short-term care, where we gave this nursing home a grade of C in this category. In forming these short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The question is whether this adversely impacted quality of care. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.