The Springs of Richmond

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care grade. Our short-term care scores are probably most important for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. When computing a facility's nursing score, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Indiana in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a resident more often.

The last category we looked at is long-term care, which ended up being this facility's worst category. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this category, which is certainly a bit of a concern. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 96.07843 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.