Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun is a senior living facility located in Calhoun City, Mississippi, a city with 5,049 people. This facility was awarded an A- overall, which is one of our better scores. In addition, this facility is also based in a hospital, which can often mean the facility offers a wider array of healthcare services. This nursing home's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.
Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- No Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- X-Ray
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Lymphedema Care
- Aquatic Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
On top of receiving an elite overall score, this facility earned an A+ inspection rating. This score is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. It doesn't appear that we have information on deficiency's 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 nursing home also received an A+ long-term care grade, making it one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+ category grades. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Nurse Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. The nursing rating includes a number of subcategories. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving patients even once per day.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we looked at was short-term care, in which this nursing home received a B-. This proved to be this nursing home's worst area. This is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. Short-term care grades are typically used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun, 10.72% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun, 3.26% of Patients had Serious Falls
This measures the percent of long-term care patients which have had a fall resulting in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun, 3.03% of Patients had UTIs
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients which suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric can be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun, 20.18% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are used for several medical conditions, such as dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun, 22.76% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun, 2.3% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients showing signs of depression. Many in the industry argue this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun, 93.75% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun, 18.95% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many in the industry argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun, 20.82% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun, 1.95 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is key to maintaining the physical health of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Baptist Nursing Home-Calhoun, 20.82 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Nearby Hospitals
- Bmh-CalhounCritical Access Hospitals 0.08 miles away140 Burke-Calhoun City Road Calhoun City Mississippi 38916Voluntary non-profit - Private(662) 628-6611