Diversicare of Fulton

Diversicare of Fulton is the sole option we identified in Fulton, Kentucky. This nursing home received an overall score of F. In our view, you would be better off to avoid of this nursing home. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category is short-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

Even though we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a decent short-term care grade this year. We gave it a C in that category. In forming these short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. One of this place's strengths is registered nurse staffing. It offers more care from registered nurses to its patients than most facilities. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 38.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.

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. We weighed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This particular nursing home provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This nursing home was relatively weak in some of the datapoints we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are often good measures of the quality of nursing care available.

This facility didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded them a grade of C for that category. Other categories turned out to be the source of this facility's rock bottom overall grade. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. To our surprise, this place was hit with a category J through K deficiency, which are among the worst categories of deficiencies. This generally means that CMS found a deficiency which places patient safety or health in imminent jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Moving on to our fourth category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D in the area of long-term care. This is the facility's worst category rating. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 95.30202 percent of its patients. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility fared radically worse with 4.32 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this statistic is more than twice the national average.