Signature Healthcare at Jefferson Place Rehab & We

With over 20 facilities to choose from in Louisville, Kentucky, Signature Healthcare at Jefferson Place Rehab & We is one of the multitude of facilities here. We gave it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the pack grade. Louisville received a city grade of B, so there are some other options in the city worth considering. You also may want to review this facility's category grades below. We discuss short-term care in the next section.

This facility earned an elite short-term care grade. In fact, we gave this nursing home an A in this area, which really helped its overall grade. In calculating our short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Kentucky in this area with 57.9 percent of its residents returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

This facility's second best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. We weighed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This particular nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This nursing home was relatively weak in some of the datapoints we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are often good measures of the quality of nursing care available.

This facility's second least favorable category was long-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that area. This is a relatively poor grade. Nursing homes that do not score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated only 86.3354 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.1 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.

Unfortunately, this nursing home did not receive a favorable inspection rating. We gave it just a just D in this category. Inspection ratings relate to a nursing home's inspection reports. Inspection grades weigh many items found on the nursing home's inspection reports. When you find severe deficiencies on the reports, this is generally the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This particular nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, we also need to point out that this nursing home received large government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This usually means that a poor track record has been an issue for more than one year.