Spring Mill Health Campus

This nursing home excelled in the area of short-term care, with an A- in this category. This really boosted its overall grade. In crafting our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 56.9 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing score is primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This place provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is among the highest figures in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more skilled levels of nurses. We were really impressed by both of these figures. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering falls leading to serious injury, this facility performed as well as any facility the nation. Avoiding major falls is generally an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also earned a strong inspection score. Inspection grades are based on the nursing home's recent government inspections. We awarded this facility a B in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. This particular nursing home received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Switching gears to the final category, this nursing home did not perform well. With a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is its worst category grade. Facilities that do not fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. This facility's vaccination records were a bit weaker than some of the other data points in this area, such as its nursing hours. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 73.07692 percent of its residents. We would love to see some improvement in this area next year. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.