Simpson Place

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home really outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with a grade of A. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. We weren't able to find deficiency data for this facility. Without having the information regarding deficiencies for this nursing home, it is challenging to grade the place in the area of inspections.

Another one of this nursing home's stronger areas was in the category of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning a resident more often.

This nursing home's third best category is its short-term care score, where it received a B-. Short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.

This facility's weakest area was long-term care, which is the last area we assessed. In this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of just D. Nursing homes that don't score well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were not able to track down information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.