Adams County Nursing Center is a senior living facility located in Natchez, Mississippi, a city with 32,334 people. This nursing home is a quality facility, with an overall grade of B. Based on our analysis, you could do much worse than this place. This place's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which we will address in the next section.
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Adams County Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Cardiac Therapy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Aquatic Therapy
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Facility Inspections
One of the reasons this turned out to be a strong nursing home is that it earned an impressive inspection score. Inspections is its best category. In that category, we awarded it an A. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. It does not appear that we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility was given high scores in the category of long-term care as well. Indeed, we awarded it one of our most favorable grades in that category with a score of A-. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. Our nursing rating analyzes a handful of datapoints, but the paramount one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed remarkably well in this metric. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a resident even once per day.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we graded was short-term care, which turned out to be this facility's weakest category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. Of course, this category hurt the facility's overall grade a bit. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. We found that this nursing home was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.3 percent of its residents returning home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Adams County Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Adams County Nursing Center, 16.89% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay residents who are suffering from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are an barometer of nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Adams County Nursing Center, 2.61% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are often associated with poor nursing care. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Adams County Nursing Center, 0.48% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely associated with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this statistic can also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Adams County Nursing Center, 17.98% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term stay residents which are given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically indicated. However, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these medications due to having more patients suffering from cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Adams County Nursing Center, 25.6% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure tells you the percent of long-term patients who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are prescribed to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Adams County Nursing Center, 0.48% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Adams County Nursing Center, 100% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Adams County Nursing Center, 23.65% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the decline of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Adams County Nursing Center, 12.94% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents who maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Adams County Nursing Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Adams County Nursing Center, 12.94% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Adams County Nursing Center, 10% of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Adams County Nursing Center, 50.82% of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements.
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Medical Care Adams County Home, LLC0.72 miles away151 Jefferson Davis Blvd Ste D Natchez Mississippi 39120Dialysis Stations: 1 (601) 445-3393
- Rcg Natchez0.92 miles away312 Highland Blvd Natchez Mississippi 39120CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 31 (601) 446-8060
- Fmcna - Ferriday3.79 miles away2004 Carter Street Suite A Vidalia Louisiana 71373CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (318) 336-4196