Signature Healthcare of Spencer County

Signature Healthcare of Spencer County is located in Taylorsville, Kentucky, a city with a population of 14,292 people. This nursing home is a very respectable facility, with an overall grade of B. This nursing home truly has plenty going for it. We were also pleased to find that this facility didn't have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. More information about its category grades is available below.

To go along with its strong overall score, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its profile, this facility also earned a score of B for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also received a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. This place provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it performed decently in this metric, with 46.1 percent of its patients returning home.

The next category we looked at is nursing. We gave it a C in this category. This is a decent grade in this area. In determining our nursing scores, we analyze both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.