Singing River Gulfport Skilled Nursing Facility

In addition to being a great facility overall, it also received A+ inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually perfect. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. It doesn't appear that we have deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its strong performance in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A- for our long-term care rating. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. This facility fared well enough in these metrics to earn a quality score in this area.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. We assessed the licensure of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in calculating our score in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning patients at least once a day.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. This nursing home received a strong nursing rating this year, with a grade of B. Even though this is not quite as strong as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of our stronger scores in this category. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most meaningful for residents requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. We were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.