Haskell County Nursing Center

This facility received a long-term care rating which is better than its overall score. We awarded this facility a B+ in this category. This boosted its overall profile. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.46809 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also want to emphasize this place's nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of B+ in this area. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-, which is a decent grade. The nursing grade considers numerous factors. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. While this place got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed well in this statistic. This is generally an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a resident more often.

The last area we rated was short-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this category. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This score is frequently a meaningful measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. It doesn't appear that this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.