Sellersburg Healthcare Center

Sellersburg Healthcare Center is a nursing home located in Sellersburg, Indiana, a city with a total of 16,059 people. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of C, which is a decent grade. You can definitely do worse than this place. You should also take a look at this facility's category grades below. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

We gave this facility one of our higher scores in short-term care, where it received an A-. This is far better than the nursing home's overall grade, which was certainly not elite. In the area of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. This facility excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. This is generally an excellent sign. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in the country with 61.3 percent of its patients returning home.

Inspections is another category where this nursing home excelled. We awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's inspections. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Nursing ratings are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This place provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is a relatively low figure. Nevertheless, more than a quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. This is a high percentage of skilled nursing care, which we weight more in our nursing grades. Finally, we look at quality-based metrics, such as the percent of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are measures of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's worst category was long-term care, which is the last area we assessed. Sadly, it received an F in this area. Despite multiple acceptable grades in other areas, this score is nevertheless of a concern so we would like to to draw your attention to it. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 99.65636 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 1.78 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was not bad due to it having more complex patients.