Sylvia G Thompson Residence Center

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

Surprisingly, we gave this nursing home a B- for our long-term care rating, which isn't too bad of a score. Our long-term care scores are vital for patients in need of non-healthcare services such as personal care. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 97.51693 percent of its patients. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Unfortunately, this facility's next best score was short-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still performed relatively badly. In computing our short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Based on its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to learn that this place was well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

This nursing home's worst area was nursing, which is the last area we scored. In this category, we awarded this facility a D. The nursing score analyzes a handful of data points, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were well below the national average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place had really bad marks in many of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents experiencing falls which led to serious injury. This nursing home was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming in light of the fact that many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of receiving a poor nursing rating.