Spring Hill Health and Rehabilitation Center

Although this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing. We awarded it a B- for that category. The nursing rating includes a handful of factors, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below the national average. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. Although this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed well in this metric. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving residents more frequently.

This facility's second highest area was its short-term care score, where it was awarded a grade of B-. Short-term care scores are meaningful for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This facility's next best category turned out to be long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a B-. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 97.835495 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we looked at is inspections. This grade is based on the facility's recent inspections. We gave it a C in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This indicates that it avoided the more serious categories of deficiencies. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.