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 facility also was elite in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Very few nursing homes fared better in this area. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.89227 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

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+. We looked at the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving a resident even once per day.

Turning to the next category, this nursing home received a respectable short-term care rating. Although this is not quite as strong as several of its other grades, this is still nothing to be ashamed of. Our short-term care scores are presumably more critical for individuals in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.