Lawrence Co Nursing Center

Lawrence Co Nursing Center is a small facility located in Monticello, Mississippi. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B. A grade of this caliber requires quality marks in most areas. Based on all of the relevant data, you can do much worse than this place. This nursing home's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection rating, which you can find in the next section.

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also earned first-rate inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best scores in that area, with an A+. Inspection grades are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so favorably is that it was given a favorable long-term care score. In fact, long-term care turned out to be its second best category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.52153 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. The last datapoint we looked at was the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 3.96 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as strong as most of its other scores in this category, this figure may be skewed for some nursing homes based on the medical complexity of residents.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this was not one of this facility's strong suits. We awarded it a grade of D in this category. Clearly, this facility performed much better in the categories discussed above. Nursing ratings are primarily tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. While this nursing home didn't excel in nursing hours, it surprised us in a few of the quality-based metrics in the nursing category, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this statistic, which was one redeeming quality we found in this category.

The next category we looked at was short-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that area. Of course, this category hurt the facility's overall profile a bit. Our short-term care ratings are important for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. It looks like this place was below average in several staffing areas we assessed. It offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 30.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.