Signature Healthcare at Rockford turns out to be one of a host of options you can choose from in Louisville, Kentucky. This facility was given an overall grade of B-, which is a respectable grade. While there's nothing wrong with a B-, it is worth noting that Louisville received a city grade of B+ so there are some good options here. One of the best aspects of this facility's report card is its remarkable inspection rating, which you can find in the next section.
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Signature Healthcare at Rockford
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No 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
- Tracheotomy Care
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its decent overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for its inspection grade. This score is far more impressive than its overall grade. Our inspection ratings are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Short-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility a favorable grade in short-term care. This facility earned a grade of B in this area, which turns out to be one of our more favorable scores. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is often a useful measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. It doesn't look like this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility's next highest category ended up being its long-term care grade, where it received a grade of B-. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home vaccinated 98.46154 percent of its patients, which is a very solid figure. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Nurse Quality
The last category we rated is nursing. It received an abysmal F for this area, which is a very poor score. This is clearly a major concern. The nursing rating consists of many components, but the primary one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This place offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Signature Healthcare at Rockford Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Signature Healthcare at Rockford, 9.26% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often caused by residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Signature Healthcare at Rockford, 3.96% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients which had falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Signature Healthcare at Rockford, 3.13% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely associated with poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be misleading for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Signature Healthcare at Rockford, 16.59% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term residents taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Signature Healthcare at Rockford, 29.93% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Signature Healthcare at Rockford, 8.23% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Signature Healthcare at Rockford, 89.41% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Signature Healthcare at Rockford, 16.24% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Signature Healthcare at Rockford, 15.8% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percent of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Signature Healthcare at Rockford, 15.8 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Signature Healthcare at Rockford, 13.87 Percentage of Patients
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Signature Healthcare at Rockford, 72.54% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements.
Scores for Louisville, KY
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- 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-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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