Simmons Loving Care Health Facility

On top of earning a great overall grade, this nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it received an A. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. When determining our nursing ratings, we analyze both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving a patient more often.

Another one of this nursing home's more favorable category scores came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. Our short-term care grade is often employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Moving on to the category of long-term care, this nursing home was awarded a grade of just D in that area. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated just 7.228914 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

Turning our last category of inspections, this nursing home received a grade that's as bad as it gets. Unfortunately, with an F in the inspection category, this nursing home's overall grade was adversely affected. For nursing homes that received this poor of an inspection score, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home had a category L deficiency, which is the worst possible category of deficiencies. This means CMS identified a widespread deficiency putting patient safety or health in immediate danger. Even a single deficiency of this severity will really pull a nursing home's inspection grade down. Lastly, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received large government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This generally means that a nursing home's poor track record spanned more than one year.