General Baptist Nursing Home of Piggott

To go along with its favorable overall performance, we awarded this place an A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Building on its impressive profile, this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing. We gave it an B+ for that category. Nursing ratings are largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a resident more often.

The third area we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home was awarded an above average long-term care grade, with a B in the category. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to our final category, we gave this nursing home a D for our short-term care category. This was the facility's weakest category score. Sadly, this category pulled down the facility's overall profile to some degree. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.