Integrity Hc of Smithton

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it actually earned a relatively impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid nursing homes that have too many deficiencies. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Unfortunately, this nursing home only earned a grade of D for its short-term care rating, which ended up being one of its better category grades. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.

Sadly, we gave this facility an F for its long-term care grade. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the datapoints we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

The next category we analyzed is nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is a poor score. Our nursing grade analyzes quite a few data points, however, the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.