Cla-Clif Nursing and Rehab Center is located in Brinkley, Arkansas, a city with 4,348 people. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B-. A grade in this range requires some respectable marks. You could certainly do worse than this nursing home. The best part of this facility's report card is is its inspection score. We discuss inspections in the next section.
Cla-Clif Nursing and Rehab Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
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Facility Inspections
The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave it an A-. Inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to note that this nursing home received an B in the area of nursing. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Long-term Care Quality
The third category we assessed was long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a solid grade of B-. Long-term care ratings are vital for people in need of personal care. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 96.27329 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
Our last category is short-term care, where we awarded this nursing home a C in that area. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cla-Clif Nursing and Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Cla-Clif Nursing and Rehab Center, 8.16% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients which suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Cla-Clif Nursing and Rehab Center, 4% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients that experienced falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Cla-Clif Nursing and Rehab Center, 2.3% of Patients had UTIs
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term patients who suffered from urinary tract infections. UTI's could be a sign of a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric could also be misleading for some facilities due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Cla-Clif Nursing and Rehab Center, 12.13% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are sometimes used for treating several conditions, such as dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Cla-Clif Nursing and Rehab Center, 21.55% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents given antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Cla-Clif Nursing and Rehab Center, 2.07% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients showing depressive symptoms. Many in the industry argue this is a measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Cla-Clif Nursing and Rehab Center, 95.87% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these vaccines vital to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Cla-Clif Nursing and Rehab Center, 11.98% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of erosion of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Cla-Clif Nursing and Rehab Center, 12.63% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that remained mobile levels. Many would argue that mobility is important for residents' physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
In Cla-Clif Nursing and Rehab Center, 1.81 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Cla-Clif Nursing and Rehab Center, 12.63 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.