Shelbyville Rehab & Hlth C Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's second most respectable category is short-term care. However, with a D in this area, it still fared somewhat poorly. Short-term care grades are vital for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With a grade of this caliber in this category, we were not shocked to discover that this facility was well below average in multiple staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it supplied significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients that returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below average.

The third area we graded is long-term care. This facility's received a bottom of the barrel long-term care score where it received an F. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

The last area we analyzed was nursing. We gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is a rock bottom score. Our nursing rating consists of many components, many of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This facility averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This facility also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric.