Humphreys Co Nursing Center

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this place really excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Not many nursing homes performed better in that category. Inspection grades are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this nursing home's other achievements is its first-rate long-term care score. We awarded them one of our most favorable grades in that area, with a grade of A. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.411766 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. We looked at the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place surprisingly fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It scored well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care offered.

The last category we scored is short-term care, turned out to be this facility's weakest area. We gave this nursing home a D in this category. This really was one of just a couple of weak points in an otherwise impressive report card. Short-term care grades are typically used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. We found that this nursing home was subpar in several staffing metrics we assessed. It provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.