Integrity Hc of Smithton

While this nursing home's overall score was as bad as it gets, it performed pretty well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that category, which is one of our better scores. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid facilities that have a long list of deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Turning to the category of short-term care, this facility was given a grade of just D in that category. Sadly, this ended up being one of its best areas. In the area of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. With a grade this poor for this category, we were not shocked to learn that this place was well below average in multiple staffing figures we assess. The facility supplied far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

In addition, we gave this nursing home a rock-bottom F in the category of long-term care. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We weren't able to track down information on vaccination rates. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

Moving on to our last category, this nursing home really didn't perform very well here either. With an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is about as terrible as it gets. Our nursing grade analyzes quite a few components, but the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provided a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is well below average. Lastly, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing scores. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as good measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.