Kings Daughters Medical Center

We also wanted to point out that this facility earned near flawless government inspections recently. We awarded them an A+ in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. We weren't able to find deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many dominant scores, this facility received a strong short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in this category. Our short-term care grade is often used to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. It does not look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing score is based on quite a few datapoints, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Kentucky in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning a resident at least once a day.

Moving on to our final area, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care category. We gave it a B+ in this area. This rounded out a first-rate report card. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.