Wingate at Springfield

Located in Springfield, Massachusetts, Wingate at Springfield is one of just three facilities in this area. Sporting an overall rating of C, this is likely a middle of the pack nursing home. This place seems to have a few things working in its favor. The best part of this nursing home's profile was its stellar inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of A. This is a notably better score than the place's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. 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. Based on this, we still had a generally positive view of this facility's recent inspections.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category grades was in the category of short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B. With our short-term care assessment, we try to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This was more of a strength for this facility. It fared as well as just about any facility in Massachusetts with 66.4 percent of its patients returning home.

This facilities third most favorable area is long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road grade in this area. Our long-term care grades are more important for individuals requiring more conventional assistance related to personal care. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 90.909096 percent of its residents. This is somewhat less than we anticipated but still a respectable figure. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a significantly better hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.

The next area we looked at was nursing, which proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area, which is clearly concerning. There are a number of criteria within this category. Most of the data points are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 1.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. In addition to its below average nursing hour totals, this facility also received suboptimal marks in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We found that more of this place's residents sustained falls leading to serious injury.