Mission Convalescent Home

Mission Convalescent Home is a small non-profit facility located in Jackson, Tennessee. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of C, which is a good rating. You can certainly do worse than this nursing home. The best part of this nursing home's profile is its remarkable inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better grades in that category, with an A+. This is a notably better grade than the place's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facility also received high marks in the area of long-term care, with a very impressive grade of A- in this category. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.38 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Next we wanted to quickly point out one of this facility's major weaknesses. In the area of nursing care, we gave this nursing home a lowly grade of F. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 2.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this measure. This is likely a bad sign in light of the fact that so many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.

The final area we looked at is short-term care, which proved to be this facility's worst area. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is obviously a major concern. Our short-term care scores are vital for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Given its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Finally, we considered the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 15.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.