Seymour Rehabilitation and Healthcare

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. This facility received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home also was awarded a strong score in our long-term care category. We gave this facility a better than average grade of B+ in this category. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's third best category came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. Our short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.

This facility's least impressive category is nursing, which is the final category we assessed. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area. Even with several acceptable grades in other categories, this grade is still disappointing so we would like to to make a note of it. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the amount of time nurses commit to residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.