Bracken County Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
5269 Asbury Road, Augusta KY 41002 · (606) 756-2156 · 77.81% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Bracken County Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is located in Augusta, Kentucky. This facility appears to be among the better facilities we looked at. A score of this caliber requires high-end marks across the board. You really can't do much better than this place. This nursing home was also given strong grades in all of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 32 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home performed well in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Very few places fared as well in this area. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was superb in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Not many facilities performed better in this category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. This facility was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Although it had 1.88 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than most facilities due to it having more complex patients.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to another strength for this facility, we gave them one of our stronger scores in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. With our short-term care grade, we endeavor to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. When we assessed this nursing home's nursing hours, we found it provided substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that it performed better than most nursing homes in this area with 49.5 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
Switching gears to the last category, this facility also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in that area. This completed a very strong profile. The nursing rating analyzes quite a few components, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provides an impressive 3.7 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Of this total, more than one fourth of these hours were provided by registered nurses, which is among the most skilled levels of nurses. We apply more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses in calculating our nursing ratings. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home excelled in these areas, with excellent scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bracken County Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term residents who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of long-term patients which have sustained a fall leading to serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing scores.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to poor nursing care. However, this datapoint may also be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients which are administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients exhibiting signs of depression. Some argue this is a measure of patient quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who remained mobile levels. Some experts believe that mobility is important for patients mental and physical health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better