Mccoy Memorial Nursing Center

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home especially excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Not many facilities performed better in this category. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. It does not appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without deficiency data for this facility, it ended up being difficult to fully assess the place in terms of this category.

An additional quality feature for this nursing home is that it was given an above average long-term care score. Indeed, this proved to be its second best category score. In that category, we gave this facility a B. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 97.411766 percent of its patients, which is far higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. Our nursing rating features a variety of datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this metric. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning patients more frequently.

Turning to the fourth category, this nursing home was awarded a C in short-term care, which is a respectable score. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is more often than not a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.