Saint Luke’s Bishop Spencer Place

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Our nursing rating weighs many factors. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The third category we analyzed is short-term care. This facility was given a very favorable short-term care score. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our short-term care grades are considered to be most critical for patients needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final area we rated was long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an acceptable grade of C. This turned out to be this facility's least impressive area. Our long-term care scores are more important for those in need of more traditional assistance associated with activities of daily living. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.9011 percent of its patients. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.