Jefferson County Nursing Home
910 Main Street, Fayette MS 39069 · (601) 786-3888 · 76.66% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Jefferson County Nursing Home is a small government-owned nursing home in Fayette, Mississippi. This nursing home proved to be a grade A facility, which is a dominant score. Based on our ratings, this place is just about as as good as it gets. Headlining this place's stellar profile is its long-term care score, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 60 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the statistics we considered on top of this facility's above average nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.45652 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the elderly. The last datapoint we looked at was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 4.13 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this area, this figure can be skewed for some nursing homes due to the preexisting medical conditions of patients.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This score is based on the nursing home's government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can pay to a nursing home. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. 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.
Nurse Quality
Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. There are quite a few factors within this grade. Most of the factors relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home offers a very impressive 5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is among the more impressive totals in the country. Lastly, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients suffering falls leading to major injury, this place performed as well as any facility in the country.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a decent short-term care grade. While this is not as strong as many of its other category grades, this is truly nothing to be ashamed of. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 31.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Jefferson County Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay patients who experienced falls leading to severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often associated with poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint could be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better