Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a small nursing home located in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. This is a good nursing home with a B overall. This was right in line with the city grade in Elizabethtown. This facility truly has plenty going for it. The best part of this nursing home's impressive profile is its inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph
Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to earning a strong overall score, this facility fared even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the nursing home's recent inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for that category, which is one of our best grades. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, this facility also was awarded favorable long-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we awarded them one of our stronger scores in that category, with a score of B+. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 97.89474 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
The next area we assessed is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a decent grade of B-. With our short-term care score, we strive to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home was awarded an acceptable nursing grade of C. We assessed the skill-level of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses worked with residents, in determining our rating in this category. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. Although this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did very well in this statistic. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a resident at least once a day.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 9.06% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 3.84% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of long-term patients that have suffered a fall which caused major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 2.74% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 15.92% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 28.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly used to treat residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 8.85% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 90.04% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 15.42% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 20.17% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 1.59 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 20.17 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 13.78 Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 72.12% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Elizabethtown, KY
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-plus
Looking for more options? Elizabethtown, Kentucky has 4 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Hardin Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.31 miles away913 North Dixie Avenue Elizabethtown Kentucky 42701Government - Local(270) 737-1212
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - of Hardin County0.99 miles away1324 Woodland Drive, Ste B Elizabethtown Kentucky 42701Dialysis Stations: 13 (270) 763-0396
- Davita - Dialysis of Central Kentucky2.29 miles away2807 Ring Road Elizabethtown Kentucky 42702Dialysis Stations: 29 (270) 735-1883
- Davita - Radcliff Dialysis9.33 miles away180 East Lincoln Trail Blvd Radcliff Kentucky 40160Dialysis Stations: 12 (270) 352-2252
- Fmc-Nak Radcliff, LLC9.58 miles away211 E Lincoln Trail Blvd Radcliff Kentucky 40160Dialysis Stations: 13 (270) 352-2555