Singing River Skilled Nursing Facility

In addition to receiving an elite overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ inspection grade. This score is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility was given strong marks in the area of short-term care. As a result, it was given one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Our short-term care grade is generally used to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. The nursing score assesses quite a few components, but the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to our final area, this facility also performed well in the long-term care category. We awarded it a grade of A in that category. This topped off truly elite report card. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.