South Hampton Place

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest grades in this category with a grade of A. Inspection scores are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility was given its second highest category score in the area of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this category, which is a respectable score. Long-term care ratings are pivotal for people looking for non-healthcare services such as personal care. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 94.22222 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than most nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also awarded this facility a middle of the pack score in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a C. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is typically a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This nursing home's weakest category was nursing, which is the final category we looked at. In this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D. The nursing score is based on quite a few data points, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This statistic is well below average. In addition to its subpar nursing hour totals, this facility also earned suboptimal marks in many of the quality-based metrics we considered in determining our nursing ratings. We found that a higher percentage of this nursing home's residents suffered falls leading to major injury.