South Hills Rehabilitation Center

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home excelled in our short-term care rating, where it earned a grade of A. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 5.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Nursing ratings are primarily based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding another impressive category grade, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of B+ for our inspections category. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The last category we analyzed was long-term care, which proved to be this facility's least impressive area. It received an F for this area, which is obviously somewhat concerning. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective 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. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 95.13513 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.