Southside Care Center

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We weighed the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses worked with patients, in determining our grade in this area. This particular nursing home provided 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning residents even once per day.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. This facility was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its fine profile, this nursing home also was given a dominant long-term care grade, with a grade of A-. For residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 91.30435 percent of its patients. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the last category we rated, this facility was awarded an impressive grade grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility rounded out an elite profile. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.