Signature Healthcare of East Louisville

One of the reasons this proved to be a quality facility is that it received a very impressive short-term care score. Short-term care is its best category. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A. Our short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 57.894733 percent of its patients. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The final area we looked at was nursing, in which this nursing home was awarded a B. This nursing home didn't end up having any noticeable weaknesses. There are quite a few factors included in this grade. Many of these data points are tied to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.