Majestic Care of Southport

Unfortunately, we gave this place some extremely bad category grades. This includes an F for its inspection grade. This is a very important category. Scores in this range generally point to some red flags on the nursing home's inspections. When a place has this bad of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This particular nursing home had 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years of more than $50,000. This generally signifies that CMS inspectors became fed up after multiple years of bad health inspections.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the category of short-term care. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. With a score this poor in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing figures we assess. In fact, it offered significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.

The third area we analyzed is long-term care, where this nursing home was given an F. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care may not provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes provide. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated 60.069447 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit lower than the national average. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

The last category we scored is nursing. Sadly, it received an F in this category, which is an abysmal grade. We weighed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is not a very impressive figure. This place also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this facility's nursing grade significantly.