Bracken County Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.