Spring Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation

In addition to receiving a poor overall grade, we also gave this place poor grades across the board in our categories. In fact, it received a grade of just D for its short-term care grade, which was its best category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Given its poor grade, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home provided substantially fewer registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's inspection grades where it received an F. This generally means we found some red flags on the inspection reports. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection rating. We would scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we also want to point out that this nursing home received significant government fines in recent years in excess of $50,000. This often means that government inspectors became frustrated after several years of failed government inspections.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. The nursing grade is based on quite a few components, however, the main consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. With only 2.5 hours of nursing care per resident daily, this place's nurse staffing levels were far below average. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this facility was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found this facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this metric.

The next area we graded is long-term care, in which this nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade here also. Sadly, it received an F for this category, which is obviously somewhat alarming. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.373985 percent of its patients, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.38 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.