Signature Healthcare of Cleveland

Signature Healthcare of Cleveland is an average-sized nursing home located in Cleveland, Tennessee. This nursing home proved to be an A rated facility. It was given one of the most impressive scores that we offer. A grade of this caliber requires superb scores across the board. This is the number one rated facility in the city. Headlining this facility's stellar profile is its inspection reports, which you can find in the next section.

One of the reasons this place turned out to be a quality nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection grades are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a very strong short-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being this nursing home's second strongest category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A-. In calculating our short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. This nursing home excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It supplied more care from registered nurses and physical therapists than the typical nursing home. This is an encouraging sign. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country with 55 percent of its residents returning home.

The next category we assessed was long-term care. Adding to its superb resume, this nursing home also performed well in that area. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A- for that area. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 97.609566 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home does not take any chances. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.11 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a much better hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.

In the final category, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for its nursing rating. This wrapped up an elite profile. When computing a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the number of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of moving residents more frequently.