Christian Care Center of Kuttawa

One of the many reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is that it earned a very impressive grade in inspections. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category. In this category, we awarded this nursing home an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not 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.

Contributing to its superb profile, this facility also performed well in our long-term care area. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in the area. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 56.684494 percent of its patients. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to our next area, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The next category we assessed proved to be this nursing home's poorest area. However, even its worst category would be a strength for many facilities. We awarded it a favorable grade of B for nursing. In calculating our nursing ratings, we assess both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.