Calvert City Convalescent Center

Calvert City Convalescent Center is located in Calvert City, Kentucky. We awarded it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the pack score. Based on our analysis, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. This facility is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

In addition, we also would like to point out that this facility received impressive long-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our higher grades in this area, with a B. This turned out to be the facility's second best grade. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.30796 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. This place was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.36 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Nursing scores are tied to nurse staffing levels. This nursing home averages 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these datapoints. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this area. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a patient at least once a day.

Moving on to the final category, this facility received an acceptable short-term care score of C. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This area is more often than not a solid measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last statistic we considered in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 38.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.