AdviniaCare Southpointe

While we did not have many positive things to say about this nursing home's overall grade, it received a respectable short-term care score of B-. This spared its profile to some extent. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We were surprised to find that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This nursing home was given its next most favorable category score in the area of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this area, which is a decent grade. Long-term care grades are typically used to measure a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated 89.80716 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is several points lower than average. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. There are quite a few datapoints included in this area. Most of these factors relate to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.

Unfortunately, this facility did not receive a favorable inspection score. We gave it just a just D in this category. Inspection grades relate to a facility's government inspections. We weight poor inspection ratings heavily in our assessment. Since government inspections are completed by independent government inspectors, we consider this information to be reliable. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. You should be especially cautious when considering a facility that has severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. This particular facility was assessed 2 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.