Smiths Mill Health Campus

In addition to faring well overall, this facility also earned nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it earned one of our best scores in that category with an A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. It doesn't look like we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Without having complete deficiency data for this facility, it was difficult to fully evaluate the place in this category.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing score is based on several factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a resident at least once a day.

Additionally, this nursing home also was awarded favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of B. With our short-term care score, we endeavor to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home's least impressive category was long-term care, which is the last area we assessed. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D. We want to to draw your attention to this possible weak spot, however, you should not dwell on a single weak category either. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category likely don't provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes provide. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 77.47748 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is several points less than average. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.