Leakesville Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

Leakesville Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is one of only two available facilities in Leakesville, Mississippi. It looks like this is a great facility. We awarded this it an overall grade of B+, which is very good grade. Based on all of the relevant data, you can do much worse than this place. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next section.

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility performed well in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we gave it a score of A- for that area, which is one of our most impressive scores. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the well above average quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were pleased by the facility's vaccination data. For example, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.916664 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Although it had 2.78 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was middle of the road since it had more complicated patients.

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. The nursing score analyzes many datapoints, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. With 4.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Lastly, we also looked at nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The last category we looked at was short-term care. We gave this facility a solid score in this area, with a C. While this is not as dominant as a few of its other grades, it is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. In calculating these short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 21.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.