Grayson Nursing and Rehabilitation
505 William Thomason Byway, Leitchfield KY 42754 · (270) 259-4028 · 92.22% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Grayson Nursing and Rehabilitation is a small non-profit nursing home in Leitchfield, Kentucky. Featuring an overall score of B, this facility is a fine choice. Based on all of the relevant data, you could do much worse than this facility. This nursing home's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 72 Beds
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Non profit - Other
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
Long-term Care Quality
An additional quality feature for this facility is that it was given an above average long-term care score. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category score. In this category, we gave this nursing home a B+. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of providing very impressive levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 99.58506 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. The last datapoint we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 1.86 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is middle of the pack in this area.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. Our nursing score weighs numerous subcategories. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This facility provides an impressive 4.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a higher quantity of nursing care than what is offered by most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed a few nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home actually excelled in some of these. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good measure of quality nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the fourth area, this facility was awarded a decent short-term care grade of C. Our short-term care grade is generally used to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. This place performed respectably in this metric with 45.4 percent of its patients returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Grayson Nursing and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have experienced a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure gauges the percent of long-term stay residents who had a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of residents showing signs of depression. High levels of depression could reveal a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and eating. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who maintained mobility. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is important for residents' physical and mental health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better