Springfield Nursing & Independent Living

Although this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it performed pretty well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that category, which is one of our better scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an D. There are a host of criteria within this grade. Most of the factors are tied to levels of nurse staffing. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this place's nurse staffing levels were well below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these datapoints to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to the area of long-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in this area. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 96.521736 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

The last category we scored was short-term care. We gave it a lowly F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel score. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is frequently a fair assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Considering its abysmal rating in this category, we were not stunned to discover this place provides substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.