South Campus Care Center

This nursing home earned a strong overall score as mentioned above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its excellent long-term care rating. We gave them an A in this category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.739586 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Adding to its impressive grades, we gave this facility an A- for inspections. Our inspection grades weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. There are a host of criteria within this area. Most of these subcategories are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final area we assessed is short-term care, where this facility was given a grade of C. This was this nursing home's worst category. This is nevertheless not a terrible score. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 3.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.