Simmons Loving Care Health Facility

Simmons Loving Care Health Facility is one of just three available facilities located in Gary, Indiana. Sporting an overall rating of C, this is likely a solid nursing home. This facility seems to have a few things working in its favor. The best part of this place's profile was is its nursing rating. Nursing grades are discussed in the next section.

To go along with its decent overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. We assessed the licensure of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our rating in this area. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home 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 often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another one of this facility's higher category scores came in the category of short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. It actually performed better than most nursing homes in this area. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is often a reliable measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Another concern was the F this facility was given in the category of long-term care. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is typically a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 86.56716 percent of its residents. This is quite a bit below what we expected. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.

Moving on the last category of inspections, this nursing home did not fare well. It received an F in this category. This ended up really pulling this nursing home's overall score down as we heavily weight this category. With facilities that received this bad of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility was assessed one category L deficiency, which is the most severe category of deficiencies. This category means CMS found a widespread deficiency putting resident safety or health in immediate jeopardy. Even a single deficiency in this category can drag a nursing home's inspection score down. Lastly, we also want to point out that this place was assessed significant government fines of more than $50,000. This usually means that government inspectors became fed up after several years of failed government inspections.