Spjst Rest Home No 2

Although we were not complementary of this facility's overall performance, it did receive an impressive inspection report this year with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that area with a B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B- in the area. Our nursing score is mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these datapoints. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed well in this metric.

Moving on to the area of long-term care, this nursing home received a grade of just D in that category. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.9 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

Turning to our final category, this facility didn't fare well in this category either. With an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is really as terrible as it gets. Short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 33.5 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below the national average.