Hickory Recovery Network and Hickory Treatment Centers – Corydon

On top of receiving a great overall score, this facility also received first-rate health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our best scores in this area, with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem 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.

This nursing home really excelled in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Few facilities performed more favorably in this area. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Nursing scores are mostly associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a C. This actually ended up being this facility's least impressive area. This is nevertheless not a bad grade. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 94.23077 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.