Swift Creek Health Center

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent short-term care score, with a grade of A. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most important for residents in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Our inspection scores are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its first-rate profile, this facility also was given a superb long-term care score, with a score of A. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the last area, this nursing home also received a very strong nursing grade, with an A-. This topped off a very impressive report card. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.