Mcguffey Health & Rehabilitation Center

With an address in Gadsden, Alabama, Mcguffey Health & Rehabilitation Center is one of four available nursing homes in the city. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is very favorable grade. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top third of all nursing homes in the United States. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is long-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to elite nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination record was superb as well. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.87 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this area, this figure can be skewed for some facilities due to the medical complexity of patients.

This facility also earned an A+ inspection score, making it one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This grade is based on the nursing home's government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a favorable short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this area. Short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This facility performed better in this area than in its staffing levels. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in this area with 58.8 percent of its patients returning home.

The next area we scored was nursing. This facility was awarded a better than average nursing score in our assessment, with a C. Although this isn't as dominant as several of its other grades, this remains a decent grade for this category. In determining a facility's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provides an impressive 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is among the better totals in Alabama. Lastly, we also factored some quality measures into our nursing grades. Specifically, we looked at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.