Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center

In addition to receiving a great overall rating, this facility also earned an A+ inspection score. This grade is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can offer a nursing home. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its top-shelf performance in other areas, we awarded this facility a score of A for its long-term care score. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. In addition to really impressive nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination records was as good as it gets also. Indeed, it vaccinated 99.095024 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. While it had 2.52 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was close to the national average due to it having some more complex patients.

We also would like to point out the fact that this facility received a first-rate grade of A- in our short-term care category. Short-term care grades are generally used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. We were extremely impressed to find that this facility offers its residents substantially more physical therapist hours than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in the nation in this area with 59.4 percent of its residents returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this metric.

The next area we analyzed is nursing. This facility received a very good nursing rating this year, with a grade of C. While this was not nearly as impressive as some of its other category grades, this is nevertheless a decent grade in this area. The nursing rating weighs quite a few factors, but the main one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. With 5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the vast majority of facilities. Lastly, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This facility was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average figures for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.