Summit City Nursing and Rehabilitation

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home really outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest scores in that category with a grade of A+. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 6 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.

This nursing home's long-term care rating ended up being one of its higher scores. The facility was given a grade of C in this area. Our long-term care ratings are meaningful for prospective residents looking for personal care. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 95.56962 percent of its residents. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Our third area we assessed was short-term care, in which this facility received an F. In our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to forge a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. With a score in this range for this category, we weren't stunned to find that this place was below average in multiple staffing metrics we focus on. It offered substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics sunk this facility's short-term care grade.

This nursing home's least impressive area was nursing, which is the final category we assessed. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this area. Despite a few solid scores in other areas, this score is still alarming so we felt obligated to point it out. The nursing score features numerous subcategories. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Unfortunately, this facility also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this area. This is a bad sign in light of the fact that so many pressure ulcers could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.