Claiborne and Hughes Hlth Cntr

Neither this facility's overall grade nor its category grades gave us much to highlight here. Its best category was long-term care, but even there we gave it just a D. This is still not a good score. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility vaccinated 96.26666 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable datapoint. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

This facility's second best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Nursing grades are largely tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these datapoints to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to the category of short-term care, this nursing home received just a D in this category. Short-term care grades are generally used to score a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. With its score in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The final category we looked at is inspections. This facility didn't receive glowing government inspections in recent years. Consequently, we had to give it an F. For nursing homes with bad inspection ratings, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.