Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection scores weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, it doesn't 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 facility performed well in the area of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a score of A for that area, which happens to be one of our higher grades. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.70675 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, while this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this metric.

The next category we scored is short-term care. In this category, we awarded this facility a decent grade of C. This actually is this nursing home's weakest category. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is frequently a fair assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below average.