Edgewood Estates

Edgewood Estates is a small non-profit nursing home in Frenchburg, Kentucky. Featuring an overall score of C, this is a solid facility. Based on our ratings, this facility has some redeeming qualities. We were also pleased to find that this facility was consistent in all four of our categories. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

This nursing home received a nursing score which is stronger than its overall grade. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses worked with residents, in computing our grade in this area. This facility provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which was above average. Finally, this place also performed above average in several of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided with better nursing care.

This nursing home's second best category is inspections. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B. It actually outperformed most facilities in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's next most favorable area is long-term care. We awarded it a B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this category. In our long-term care category, we analyze the sheer volume of care offered by a facility, along with some quality datapoints. Even though we determined this facility had an above average quantity of nursing hours provided by nurses aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccination rate to be a bit slightly lower than we anticipated. It administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 84.9315 percent of its residents. This is one figure we'd like to see this facility improve. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.99 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Our final area is short-term care, where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C in that category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 34.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.