Jefferson County Nursing Home

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this facility received an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a nursing home. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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.

This facility also was awarded a dominant long-term care score. This actually ended up being this nursing home's second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.32886 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility also was given a top-shelf short-term care grade. This actually is its third strongest category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A-. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Switching gears to the last area, this facility received a very strong nursing rating. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in this area, rounding out one of our more favorable profiles. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.