Mitchell's Nursing Home is in Danville, Arkansas, a city with a population of 4,384 people. This nursing home is an A rated facility. It received one of the most impressive grades that we offer. A score of this caliber requires superb marks across the board. Based on our analysis, this nursing home is simply as good as it gets. As you can find below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category scores. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this place's profile.
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Mitchell's Nursing Home
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Long-term Care Quality
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.32886 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
Among its many dominant scores, this nursing home was awarded a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a score of A in that category. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
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Facility Inspections
This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
The final category we analyzed is nursing, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of B+. This rounded out a very favorable profile. Few nursing homes received a B+ or better in in each area we assessed. When computing our nursing grades, we factor in both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This place fared well in some of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented with better nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mitchell's Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Mitchell's Nursing Home, 7.14% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric gauges the percent of long-term patients which are suffering from pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Mitchell's Nursing Home, 3.36% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are often caused by lower levels of patient supervision. Closer supervision limits the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Mitchell's Nursing Home, 3.52% of Patients had UTIs
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents which have suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Mitchell's Nursing Home, 17.63% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Mitchell's Nursing Home, 19.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of long-term patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Mitchell's Nursing Home, 0.37% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some argue that this is a measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Mitchell's Nursing Home, 99.37% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Mitchell's Nursing Home, 16.6% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Mitchell's Nursing Home, 12.83% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Mitchell's Nursing Home, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Mitchell's Nursing Home, 12.83% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Mitchell's Nursing Home, 7.94% of Patients
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Mitchell's Nursing Home, 93.06% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's often correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Chambers Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.54 miles away719 Detroit Street Danville Arkansas 72833Voluntary non-profit - Private(479) 495-2241
- Dardanelle HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 17.98 miles away200 North Third Street Dardanelle Arkansas 72834Proprietary(479) 229-4677