Floy Dyer Nursing Home

Floy Dyer Nursing Home is a small nursing home located in Houston, Mississippi. We gave this facility an overall grade of B+. A grade in this range requires strong marks in most areas. You can certainly do much worse than this place. We also gave this facility strong grades in all of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this facility performed well in long-term care. We gave it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 95.21739 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than most nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at is the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 2.4 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors 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.

Turning to the next category, this facility also earned a grade of B for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this area. Short-term care grades are important for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Remarkably, this place offers its patients at least one and a half times as many physical therapist hours per week than the typical facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 42.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The final category we rated was nursing, in which we gave it an above average grade of B. This nursing home truly does not have any weak areas. There are several data points within this category. Many of these criteria reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This nursing home fared well in some of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided with better nursing care.