Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center is in the large metropolitan area of Louisville, Kentucky which has a population of 736,284 people. Featuring an overall grade of A-, this nursing home is among the better facilities we looked at. Even with Louisville offering 39 nursing homes to choose from, this one stood out as a first-rate selection. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive profile was its short-term care rating. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section
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Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medication Management
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Short-term Care Quality
One of the many reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most important for individuals in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection score, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This score is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor dings aren't something to panic about.
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Nurse Quality
This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses worked with residents, in computing our score in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Kentucky in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning residents more frequently.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we analyzed is long-term care, in which this facility received a C. This was this facility's weakest area. This is still nothing to be ashamed of. Long-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of nursing services. This means a broad range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 93.181816 percent of its patients, which is somewhat less than we were hoping for. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center, 3.6% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center, 6.06% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term patients who sustained falls which resulted in serious injury. We use this statistic in computing nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center, 5.56% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely the result of poor nursing care. Better nursing care reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Keep in mind that this statistic is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center, 9.84% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center, 26.47% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure gauges the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center, 8.8% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating signs of depression. Some argue that this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center, 92.27% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center, 15.15% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center, 12.57% of Residents
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term patients who were able to retain mobility. Many would argue that mobility is vital to patients physical and mental well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center, 12.57% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center, 6.83% of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Signature HealthCARE at Jefferson Place Rehab & Wellness Center, 71.42% of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Louisville, KY
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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Nearby Hospitals
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- Clark Memorial HealthAcute Care Hospitals 7.02 miles away1220 Missouri Ave Jeffersonville Indiana 47130Voluntary non-profit - Other(812) 283-2147
- University of Louisville HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.05 miles away530 South Jackson Street Louisville Kentucky 40202Voluntary non-profit - Private(502) 562-3000
- Jewish Hospital & St Mary's HealthcareAcute Care Hospitals 7.35 miles away200 Abraham Flexner Way Louisville Kentucky 40202Voluntary non-profit - Private(502) 587-4011
- Norton Hospital / Norton Healthcare Pavilion / NorAcute Care Hospitals 7.37 miles away200 East Chestnut Street Louisville Kentucky 40202Voluntary non-profit - Private(502) 629-8000
- Baptist Health FloydAcute Care Hospitals 11.77 miles away1850 State St New Albany Indiana 47150Voluntary non-profit - Private(812) 944-7701
Nearby Dialysis
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- Davita - Springhurst Dialysis Center3.54 miles away10201 Champion Farms Dr Louisville Kentucky 40241Dialysis Stations: 18 (502) 425-2131
- Fmc - Northeast Louisville4.47 miles away3701 Chamberlain Lane Louisville Kentucky 40241CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (502) 327-1144
- Davita - Meadows East4.93 miles away2529 Six Mile Lane, Suite B Louisville Kentucky 40220Dialysis Stations: 12 (502) 499-4384
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