Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a small nursing home in Sandy Hook, Kentucky. With an overall score of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel facility. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Sandy Hook. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
Note: Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
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Facility Inspections
While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We believe that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.
Long-term Care Quality
Incredibly, we gave this facility a B- for its long-term care score, which really isn't a bad grade. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 98.82353 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Nurse Quality
We were surprised to find that this facility also excelled in the category of nursing. We awarded it an impressive grade of D for that category, which is one of our highest grades. The nursing score weighs a number of datapoints. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This nursing home averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
The next category we looked at is short-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a D in that category. In calculating these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Considering its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 4.55% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay patients that have pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 5.88% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are often linked to lower quality nursing care. Additional nurse staffing minimizes the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 3.48% of Patients had UTIs
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be an indicator of a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric may be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 9.87% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 42.86% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 63.48% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term residents showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 97.63% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 15.1% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the deterioration of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 9.87% of Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who maintained mobility. Some experts believe that mobility is critical to patients well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 0.04 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 9.87% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 17.56% of Patients
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Elliott Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 52.11% of Resident
Measures the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Morgan County Arh HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 10.84 miles away476 Liberty Road West Liberty Kentucky 41472Voluntary non-profit - Private(606) 743-3186
- St Claire Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 16.26 miles away222 Medical Circle Morehead Kentucky 40351Government - Federal(606) 783-6502
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Morehead15.88 miles away250 Norman Wells Lane Morehead Kentucky 40351Dialysis Stations: 16 (606) 780-9701