Morganfield Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this facility also earned first-rate inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in this category, with a grade of A. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

In addition, this facility also was awarded favorable short-term care grades this year. Indeed, we awarded it one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Short-term care grades are generally used to score a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home received a favorable long-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that category with a score of B+. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last category we analyzed is nursing. We gave this facility an acceptable grade in this category, with a B-. Even though this is not as high as many of its other grades, it is still not a bad grade. Our nursing grade looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home averages just 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused metrics. We especially like to look at the percent of patients who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care can reduce these problems.