Farmerville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

While we were not high on this nursing home's overall grade, it received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best scores in that category with a grade of A. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with a list of severe deficiencies flagged. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of this facility's higher category scores came in the category of long-term care. This ended up being its second most favorable category. In that category, we awarded this facility a C. In determining these long-term care grades, we look at the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 90.983604 percent of its residents, which is a bit below what we expected. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we look at the amount of time nurses are with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This place performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we rated was short-term care. It received an F in this area, which is an abysmal grade. Our short-term care scores are arguably more important for residents needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its score in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.