Swansea Rehab Health Care

Neither this nursing home's overall score nor its category grades gave us much to write home about. Its best area was short-term care, but even there it received just a D. In forming these short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Based on its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the figures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below average.

We also wanted to point out this nursing home's inspection score where it received an F. This usually means we found some major red flags on its inspection reports. For places that received this bad of an inspection rating, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home had a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by inspectors had potential to create actual harm to residents. Lastly, we need to point out that this facility received large government fines recently of over $50,000. This typically means that government inspectors became frustrated after several years of failed health inspections.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular place averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This number is far below the national average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next area we rated is long-term care. It received an F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 95.652176 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.