Metcalfe Health Care Center is located in Edmonton, Kentucky, a city with 7,026 people. This proved to be a quality facility, with an overall grade of B. Based on our analysis, you could do much worse than this place. This facility was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of our major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Metcalfe Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Long-term Care Quality
In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home really excelled in long-term care, where it received a grade of A-. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.166664 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Nursing scores are primarily associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. We gave it an impressive grade of B+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. We weren't able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. We would like to have more information about this nursing home. Without deficiency related data, it ended up being a challenge to assess this nursing home in this area.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the next category, this facility was given an acceptable short-term care grade of B-. Short-term care grades are generally employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Metcalfe Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Metcalfe Health Care Center, 9.06% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Metcalfe Health Care Center, 3.84% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who have suffered a fall which caused serious injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Metcalfe Health Care Center, 2.74% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term stay residents which suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be an indicator of a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this metric can be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Metcalfe Health Care Center, 15.92% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This gauges the percent of long-term stay patients taking 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, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Metcalfe Health Care Center, 28.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are used to treat residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Metcalfe Health Care Center, 8.85% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Metcalfe Health Care Center, 90.04% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Metcalfe Health Care Center, 15.42% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and continence. Many would argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Metcalfe Health Care Center, 20.17% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Metcalfe Health Care Center, 1.59 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Metcalfe Health Care Center, 20.17 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Metcalfe Health Care Center, 13.78 Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Metcalfe Health Care Center, 72.12% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- T J Samson Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 15 miles away1301 North Race Street Glasgow Kentucky 42141Voluntary non-profit - Other(270) 651-4159
- Jane Todd Crawford HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.24 miles away202-206 Milby Street Greensburg Kentucky 42743Voluntary non-profit - Private(270) 932-4211
- Cumberland County HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.39 miles away299 Glasgow Road Burkesville Kentucky 42717Government - Local(270) 864-2511
- The Medical Center at CavernaCritical Access Hospitals 19.82 miles away1501 South Dixie Street Horse Cave Kentucky 42749Voluntary non-profit - Private(270) 786-2191
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Glasgow Kidney Center14.89 miles away205 Professional Park Drive Glasgow Kentucky 42141Dialysis Stations: 15 (270) 651-7776
- t.j. Samson Kidney Care16.1 miles away310 n.l. Rogers Wells Blvd. Glasgow Kentucky 42141CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (270) 659-5580