Springhurst Health Campus

We also wanted to emphasize that this facility has received near flawless health inspections recently. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Our inspection ratings are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not 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 was awarded a dominant short-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be this nursing home's second strongest category score. In that area, this facility received a grade of A. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Turning the page to our third area, we awarded this facility a score of A for its long-term care grade. This is a superb rating. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.95918 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a life threatening illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not leave this to chance. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the last category we looked at, this facility received a very strong grade of A- in our nursing category. With this score, the facility completed a straight A profile. The nursing score consists of many factors, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented with better nursing care.