Lakeland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Lakeland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Jackson, Mississippi. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-graded facilities we assessed. This nursing home received one of the most impressive scores that we offer. Indeed, we ranked this facility as the best nursing home in Jackson. One of the best aspects of this facility's remarkable report card is its inspection score. We discuss inspections in the next section.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. 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.

Contributing to its top-shelf resume, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care area. In fact, it received a score of A in that area. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 97.111916 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.88 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this admittedly wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this area, this number can be skewed for some facilities due to some of the preexisting medical conditions of residents.

This facility also was given a fine short-term care score. In fact, this turned out to be its third strongest category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is more often than not a solid measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Mississippi in this area with 57.1 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

In the final area, we awarded this facility a A+ for our nursing score. This completed a very impressive profile. The nursing category assesses several components, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is higher than what is offered by most nursing homes. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its residents sustaining falls leading to serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any facility in the state.