Spartanburg Hospital for Restorative Care Snf

One of the many reasons this place ended up being a quality nursing home is that it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this very important category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be 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.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home excelled in our short-term care category. We awarded them an elite grade of A+ in this area. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 7.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also received an A+ nursing grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home South Carolina in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning patients at least once a day.

In our final category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our long-term care rating. This completed a very impressive profile. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.