Springfield Rehabilitation & Health Care Center

Springfield Rehabilitation & Health Care Center is a large nursing home located in Springfield, Missouri. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B+. A grade of this caliber requires favorable scores in most areas. Springfield features a slew of nursing homes, however, we question whether you will need to visit too many others. This one is a first-rate option. This place is stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it earned one of our best scores in that category with a grade of A+. Our inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Building on its strong performance in other areas, we gave this nursing home an B for our nursing rating. Nursing ratings are largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning residents more often.

This facility is also above average in the category of short-term care, where it was given a grade of B. It outpaced most nursing homes in this area. Our short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of physical therapy per week to its residents. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it performed decently , with 47.5 percent of its patients able to return home.

The last area we assessed was long-term care, where this facility received a B-. While this turned out to be its poorest category rating, this is still nothing to be ashamed of. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.8604 percent of its residents, which is a very solid percentage. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a significantly better hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.