Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this place also earned top notch health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher scores in this area, with an A+. Inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, it does not look like we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home performed well in the category of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that area, which turns out to be one of our most favorable scores. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's third highest area turned out to be short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. Short-term care grades are commonly used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

Our last area is nursing, where we gave this nursing home a C in this area. The nursing grade weighs a handful of subcategories, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we look at quality-based statistics, such as the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.