Spring City Care and Rehabilitation Center

While this facility's overall grade is not a highlight, it actually received a somewhat respectable score in the area of inspections. We awarded it a B- for this area, which is not bad. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

This nursing home's second most favorable category was short-term care. We gave it a B- in this category. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this area. In calculating these short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.

We also gave this nursing home a decent grade in the category of long-term care, with a B-. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 53.667953 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be several points less than the national average. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to the last area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D for the area of nursing. This is the nursing home's least impressive category rating. There are a host of factors included in this category. Many of these factors reflect nurse staffing. This place averaged only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to being below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these data points. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.