Simpson House

In addition to faring well overall, this facility received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that area with an A+. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home also received a fine short-term care score. In fact, this turned out to be its second strongest category grade. In that area, this facility received a grade of A. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 7.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. Our nursing rating looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures 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 place Pennsylvania in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of turning patients at least once a day.

The last area we analyzed was long-term care, where this nursing home received a B-. This actually was this nursing home's least impressive category. This is nevertheless not a major area of concern. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 84.15842 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be several points less than the national average. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.