Spring Place Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, L

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very strong nursing grade. Nursing turned out to be its best category. In this area, we gave this facility a grade of A. When determining a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses commit to residents as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for inspections. Inspection scores weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

In addition, this facility also received favorable long-term care grades this year. Indeed, we awarded it one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not leave this to chance. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In our last category, we awarded this facility an A- for its short-term care rating. This finished off a very favorable report card. In forming our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.