The Reserve at Spring Hill

Located in Spring Hill, Tennessee, The Reserve at Spring Hill is the only option we identified in this area. With an A+ overall grade, we ranked this facility in the top five percentile of all nursing homes in the nation. We really can't say enough good things about this nursing home. Headlining this place's stellar profile is its short-term care score, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received an A+ in short-term care. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Remarkably, this nursing home provides approximately 50% more hours of services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is certainly a very favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country in this area with 58.6 percent of its patients returning home.

This high end nursing home also fared very well in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of A+. Few facilities fared better in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the datapoints we considered on top of this nursing home's quality nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the elderly. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. Inspection grades are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on to our fourth category, this facility also performed admirably in the nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A for this category. This finalized a straight A profile. Nursing grades are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This facility provides an incredible 5.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Out of this total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing high levels of care, this place also performed well in some of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home outpaced the national average.