Metcalfe Health Care Center
701 Skyline Drive, Edmonton KY 42129 · (270) 432-2921 · 94.08% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Metcalfe Health Care Center is a small non-profit nursing home located in Edmonton, Kentucky. We gave this facility an overall grade of B. A grade in this range requires quality marks in most areas. You can certainly do much worse than this place. We were also pleased to find that this nursing home didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories is available below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 71 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent inspections. We awarded it an A- for that area, which is one of our highest grades. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. We were not able to locate information on deficiency's for this nursing home. We wish we had more information about this facility. Without deficiency data, it is a challenge to evaluate this nursing home in terms of this category.
Long-term Care Quality
Among this facility's other achievements is its dominant long-term care score. It received one of our more impressive scores in that category, with a grade of A-. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After considering the impressive nursing hours provided by this facility, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.17355 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. The last datapoint we looked at is the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 4.29 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this category, this figure can be skewed for some facilities due to some of the medical complexity of patients.
Short-term Care Quality
The third category we looked at is short-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B- in this category. Short-term care scores are important for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. It performed respectably in this area with 48 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the next area, this facility received an acceptable nursing score of B-. The nursing score is based on several components, most of which are based on nursing hours. This place offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.3 hours per resident per day. This is well above average. Lastly, this facility fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place beat the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Metcalfe Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients that were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better