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The Springs at the Watermark

  • Nursing Home
  • Independent Living
  • Memory Care

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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The Springs at the Watermark's website

2 Franklin Town Blvd,
Philadelphia PA 19103

(215) 563-1800

65.13% estimated occupancy 1

The Springs at the Watermark is an average-sized facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We awarded this nursing home an A overall grade, ranking it in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the United States. Despite Philadelphia offering 49 other nursing homes to select from, this nursing home jumped off the page as a superb option. Headlining this place's remarkable profile is its short-term care grade, which we will address in the next section.

Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • Has Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Hemodialysis
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management

Registered Staff Hours

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care rating. Short-term care grades are commonly used to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Pennsylvania in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a resident more often.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A

This facility has had near flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

Moving on to the last area, this facility was given a strong long-term care score. We gave it a grade of B+ in this category, finishing off one of our finer profiles. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 12.21374 percent of its residents. This is somewhat lower than we were hoping for. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Sep 22

The Springs at the Watermark Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-minus

In The Springs at the Watermark, 7.59% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care residents that developed pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A-minus

In The Springs at the Watermark, 3.37% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents which sustained a fall resulting in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In The Springs at the Watermark, 1.9% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often linked to lower quality nursing care. However, this metric can also be misleading for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-plus

In The Springs at the Watermark, 15.54% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This metric tells you the percent of long-term stay patients who were administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such drugs are not medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of patients with cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A

In The Springs at the Watermark, 19.74% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In The Springs at the Watermark, 3.12% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are exhibiting signs of depression. Many in the industry would argue that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: F

In The Springs at the Watermark, 88.22% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient safety.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In The Springs at the Watermark, 14.84% Percentage of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and eating.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In The Springs at the Watermark, 21.64% Percentage of Residents

This tells you the percentage of residents that maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: D

In The Springs at the Watermark, 1.31 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of long-term care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In The Springs at the Watermark, 21.64 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: C

In The Springs at the Watermark, 8.92 Percentage of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: F

In The Springs at the Watermark, 72.59% Percentage of Resident

This is the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Scores for Philadelphia, PA

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus

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