Springview Manor

To go along with its strong overall performance, we gave this facility an A+ for our inspections rating. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to this nursing home's list of accomplishments, it also was given a top-shelf long-term care grade. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this area. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's third best area was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is essentially a middle of the road grade in this area. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is considered to be a meaningful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below average.

The last area we graded was nursing, proved to be this nursing home's worst category. We gave this facility a grade of D in this area. This was one of just a couple of dings of a quality profile. Our nursing score looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This place averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is an alarmingly low total. While this nursing home's nursing hours were below average, it actually surprised us in some of the qualitative statistics in this category. In particular, we were pleased to find that its patients appear to be experiencing fewer pressure ulcers than the national average.