Haskell County Nursing Center

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We gave them a grade of A+ in this area. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to offering very favorable levels of nursing care and other staffing, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.45946 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.38 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Adding to its impressive grades, we awarded this nursing home an A for inspections. Our inspection ratings are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's inspections. Nursing homes that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. In calculating our nursing ratings, we assess both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. With 4.8 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this nursing home surpassed the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered.

The next category we analyzed is this nursing home's poorest area. However, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a decent grade of C in our short-term care category. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents that returned home from the facility. This place fared much better in this metric with 58.6 percent of its residents returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.