Mcnairy County Health Care Center

With an address in Selmer, Tennessee, Mcnairy County Health Care Center is the only facility we identified there. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B. A score in this range requires respectable marks in most areas. At the end of the day, this nursing home looks like a good fit for most people. This nursing home's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.

In addition to earning a great overall rating, this facility fared even better in our inspections category which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for this area, which is one of our best scores. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home received a strong long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that category with a grade of B+. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.31 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

The third category we assessed is short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a decent grade of B-. Short-term care ratings are crucial for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. It performed much better in this area. We found it was above average in this metric with 49.4 percent of its residents returning home.

Switching gears to the fourth category, we gave this facility a D in our nursing category. This was the nursing home's least impressive category rating. Naturally, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. We scrutinized the levels of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in determining our rating in this category. This nursing home averages 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. Although this nursing home's nursing hours are below average, it actually surprised us in a few of the qualitative metrics in this category. In particular, we were pleased to find that its residents are sustaining fewer pressure ulcers than the national average.