Shiloh Springs Care Center

This facility really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it earned an A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. If it wasn't for this category, this nursing home's overall score would have been much lower. Our short-term care ratings are arguably more important for individuals requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we awarded this facility an B+. When determining our nursing grades, we weigh both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility received a good score in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's worst category is long-term care, which is the last category we analyzed. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area. Despite several acceptable grades in other categories, this score is still of a concern so we would like to to point it out. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category may not provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes provide. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 48.087433 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is quite a few points below the national average. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.