Bibb Med Center Nursing Home

In addition to receiving an elite overall score, this nursing home earned an A+ inspection score. This score is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can offer a nursing home. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This top-shelf nursing home also fared very well in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 97.52252 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize negative health outcomes for the nursing home population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Nursing ratings are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we assessed was short-term care, in which this facility was awarded a B. Although this proved to be its lowest category score, this is still a quality grade. Our short-term care scores are important for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.