Spring View Health & Rehab Center

Spring View Health & Rehab Center is one of only two available facilities in Leitchfield, Kentucky. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack rating. Based on our assessment, this place has some redeeming qualities. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's report card is its remarkable inspection rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in this category with an A+. Inspection scores are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also excelled in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Very few facilities fared better in this category. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 98.67257 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.89 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this admittedly wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this category, this statistic can be skewed for some nursing homes due to some of the preexisting medical conditions of residents.

This facilities third most favorable category is short-term care. We awarded it a C in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road score in this area. In our short-term care category, we strive to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it performed decently in this area, with 45.8 percent of its residents returning home.

The last category we analyzed is nursing. We awarded this facility a grade of D for nursing, making this the nursing home's least impressive grade. The nursing rating analyzes quite a few factors, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.