Mcguffey Health & Rehabilitation Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among the reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a favorable long-term care grade. In fact, long-term care is its second most favorable category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 97.77777 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. The nursing rating assesses a handful of components, but the most important one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. Although this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it did very well in this area. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a patient even once per day.

The final category we graded was short-term care, in which this nursing home was given a grade of C. This actually was this facility's least impressive category. This is still nothing to be ashamed of. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is often a reliable assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 5.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.