Community Compassion Center of Yellville

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our short-term care rating. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.

As it turns out, its inspection reports were not the source of this nursing home's rock bottom overall grade. It received a C in this category. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. The lack of deficiencies was definitely this facility's greatest strength.

We were also surprised to find that this facility received a decent nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. Nursing grades are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared with most nursing homes. Lastly, although this place got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this area.

Turning to the fourth area, this facility didn't fare well in this category either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. Nursing homes that do not fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. It does not look like this facility submitted information about vaccinations. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.