Mine Creek Health and Rehab

Mine Creek Health and Rehab is located in Nashville, Arkansas. The city has 10,102 people. With an overall score of F, we consider this to be a lower end facility. Based on our assessment, you'd be better off to avoid of this place. Lastly, this nursing home's ownership changed in the last year, so we will need to monitor it to confirm it is able to raise its standard of care going forward.

While this nursing home's overall grade was terrible, it fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that area, which is one of our better scores. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid places that have too many severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home also didn't fare poorly in the category of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of B- in that area, which wound up being among its more respectable grades. Our long-term care ratings are more critical for those needing more conventional assistance associated with activities of daily living. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility provided the vaccine to 98.50746 percent of its residents, which is a very solid figure. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.19 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less favorable than its other scores in this category.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. There are a number of criteria included in this category. Most of these factors are tied to staffing levels. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. Unfortunately, this facility also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.

The next area we assessed was short-term care. Sadly, it received an F for this category, which is a very poor grade. Short-term care grades are often used to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this place provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical facility. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 26.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.