Diversicare of Southaven

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality facility is that it received an impressive inspection score. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category. In this area, we awarded it a grade of A. Our inspection ratings are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Another quality feature for this facility is that it was awarded a very positive short-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being its second best category score. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is often a fair assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. It does not appear that this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home also was awarded an impressive long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this category. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 72.76888 percent of its residents. This is slightly less than we anticipated but still a respectable figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last area we graded is nursing. This facility was given a strong nursing rating in our assessment, with a B. This facility truly didn't have any weak grades. There are a number of data points included in this area. Most of the data points reflect staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented with better nursing care.