Middlesboro Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility
235 New Wilson Lane, Middlesboro KY 40965 · (606) 298-0091 · 97.78% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Middlesboro Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility is in Middlesboro, Kentucky, a city with 13,570 people. We gave this nursing home an A- overall grade, ranking it in the top third of all nursing homes in the country. This is just about as good of a nursing home as you'll find. This nursing home also received impressive ratings in all of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 95 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Unfortunately, it does not look like we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also performed well in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Not many nursing homes received a better grade in this area. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. On top of really impressive nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination record was superb also. In fact, this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the next category, this facility also earned a grade of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is often a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. It fared respectably with 48.5 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
The next category we scored is nursing. This facility received an impressive nursing score in our assessment, with a B. Although this is not quite as impressive as some of its other grades, this is nevertheless one of the better scores in that area. We scrutinized the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the number of hours the nurses spent with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided 4.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Lastly, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is typically an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by providing better nursing care and a policy of moving residents more frequently.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Middlesboro Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who had a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care residents who were administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better