Three Springs Lodge Nursing Home

This facility received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded it an impressive grade of A+ in this category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was given impressive marks in the area of long-term care as well. Indeed, we awarded it one of our most elite grades in that area with a score of A-. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 96.20253 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. Nursing ratings are mostly based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is well below average. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

The next category we looked at is short-term care, proved to be this facility's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this area. This really was one of just a couple of weak links in an otherwise impressive profile. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is frequently a solid assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. We found that this facility was subpar in multiple staffing metrics we focus on. It supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.