Signature Healthcare at Summit Manor Rehab & Welln

Signature Healthcare at Summit Manor Rehab & Welln is an average-sized nursing home located in Columbia, Kentucky. Featuring an overall score of B-, this looks like a decent nursing home. Based on our assessment, there are certainly far worse nursing homes out there. One of the best aspects of this facility's profile is its remarkable inspection reports, which we will address in the next section.

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

The next most favorable area we gave this nursing home in any category came in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a B-. Our long-term care grade is commonly used to grade a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 94.82758 percent of its residents against pneumonia. The last statistic we looked at is the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 3.18 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this figure is somewhat concerning, this number may be skewed for some facilities due to the medical complexity of residents.

This nursing home was awarded its third highest category score in the area of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a C in this category, which is an acceptable grade. Short-term care ratings are critical for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 44 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

The last area we scored was nursing. We awarded this nursing home a grade of C in this area. Our nursing score analyzes quite a few factors, however, the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also considered some quality-based assessments. This place performed well in a few of the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home outpaced the national average. This is typically a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented with better nursing care.