Mccracken Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Mccracken Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is located in Paducah, Kentucky. The city has 57,643 people. Featuring an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. If you are not happy with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Paducah. The city has just three other nursing homes. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was short-term care, which is discussed in the next section.

Even though we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable short-term care score this year. We gave it a grade of C in that area, which was the closest thing to a bright spot we could find for this facility. Our short-term care scores are presumably more important for residents requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it provided more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 37.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this is below average.

This nursing home also didn't grade out too badly in the category of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a grade of C for that area, which happens to be among its more respectable grades. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After we finished assessing the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinates 98.68996 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Unfortunately, this place's hospitalization rate was not quite as favorable. Here we found that this place had 2.49 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These statistics pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.

Turning to our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We suggest you pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home was hit with multiple category J through L deficiencies, which represent the worst possible categories of deficiencies. This generally means that the government inspectors uncovered deficiencies which placed patient safety or health in imminent danger. Finally, this facility also received 5 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.