Simmons Loving Care Health Facility

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our nursing rating. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home provided just 0 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, while this place got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this subcategory.

This facility also didn't perform poorly in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a B- in that category, which ended up being among its better scores. In crafting our short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. It offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

This nursing home ended up receiving a a terrible grade in our long-term care area. It received an F in this category. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were disappointed to learn that this facility vaccinated just 22.826084 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

In our final category of inspections, this nursing home received an abysmal grade. We weight this grade more heavily than our other categories. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection rating. We suggest you scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility was hit with one category L deficiency, which is the most serious category of deficiencies. This category indicates inspectors found a widespread deficiency placing patient health or safety in imminent jeopardy. Even a single deficiency in this category can drag a nursing home's inspection grade down. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.