Spartanburg Hospital for Restorative Care Snf

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility performed well in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Few facilities performed as well in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors 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 end up being quite minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this nursing home was given high marks in the area of short-term care. Consequently, it was given one of our most impressive grades in that category with a grade of A+. Short-term care grades are commonly used to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We looked at the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses were with patients, in determining our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home 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 state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning patients at least once a day.

Switching gears to the fourth category, this nursing home also excelled in our long-term care category. We gave it a grade of A in that area. This rounded out a straight A profile. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We weren't able to find this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.