Southpointe Rehab Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care grade. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 89.45869 percent of its residents. This is somewhat less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Adding to its impressive profile, this nursing home also performed at a high level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility's third highest area is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B-. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is frequently a meaningful measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. It doesn't appear that this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility's worst category was nursing, which is the last category we looked at. In this area, we awarded this facility a grade of D. The nursing grade is based on a host of data points. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This facility averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these statistics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.