Indianola Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center

With an address in Indianola, Mississippi, Indianola Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center is the lone option located there. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B, which is a quality rating. Based on our analysis, you could do much worse than this nursing home. We were also pleased to find that this place didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

To pair with its strong overall score, we gave this place an A+ for the area of inspections. Inspection scores are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a 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 nursing home also received favorable long-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B+. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is much higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.59 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes.

The third best category we awarded this facility in any area came in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a C. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to grade a facility's rehabilitation services In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. 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. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 36.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this is below average.

Turning to our last category, this facility was awarded a respectable nursing score of C. We weighed the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home averages 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This facility was relatively weak in some of the metrics we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are typically good measures of the quality of nursing care offered.