Jefferson Regional Medical Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care grade. Our short-term care scores are important for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 7.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. We gave it an B+ for that category. Our nursing score is largely associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home also earned a score of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the last category we assessed, this nursing home earned a good grade in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- for that category. This nursing home didn't have any major weak links. We would argue that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. It doesn't look like we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.