Simpson Place

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of A. This is a much better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we have deficiency data for this nursing home. Without the deficiency data for this facility, it is difficult to really assess it in this category.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our nursing grade analyzes a handful of factors, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is not an impressive total. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the number of hours of care provided.

The next category we assessed is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of B-. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is generally a solid measure of the facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Turning to our fourth area, we gave this facility a grade of D for the area of long-term care. This is the facility's weakest category grade. Naturally, this category hurt the facility's overall grade to a certain degree. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility provided vaccination data. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.