Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility is the only facility we found in Whitefield, New Hampshire. With an overall rating of A-, this is without a doubt an impressive nursing home. In fact, this facility ended up being one of the top 50 facilities in New Hampshire. Keep reading to find this facility's category ratings, which are also impressive. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.
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Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive nursing score. Nursing proved to be its best category. In this area, we awarded this facility an A. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also was strong in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A. Not many nursing homes received a better grade in this area. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home also performed at a high level in the area of inspections. It earned a nearly flawless inspection report this year. It earned one of our highest grades in that category with a grade of B+. Our inspection scores are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the next area, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care category. We gave it a B+ for that category. This wrapped up a very impressive profile. Our short-term care scores are arguably more meaningful for those needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this category is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 4.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility, 2.76% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility, 2.82% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of long-term care residents which have sustained a fall which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poorer hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility, 36.09% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for many medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Sadly, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility, 13.21% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are typically prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility, 2.33% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility, 99.49% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility, 24.84% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility, 27.67% of Residents
This is the percent of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility, 27.67% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility, 9.71% of Patients
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Morrison Skilled Nursing Facility, 87.14% of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Weeks Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 8.41 miles away173 Middle Street Lancaster New Hampshire 03584Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 788-4911
- Littleton Regional HealthcareCritical Access Hospitals 11.08 miles away600 St Johnsbury Road Littleton New Hampshire 03561Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 444-9000
- Northeastern Vermont Regional HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.74 miles away1315 Hospital Drive Saint Johnsbury Vermont 05819Voluntary non-profit - Private(802) 748-7400
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Medical Care of Lancaster8.4 miles away173 Middle Street Lancaster New Hampshire 03584Dialysis Stations: 14 (603) 788-5222
- Fmc of St. Johnsbury Dialysis19.93 miles away1080 Hospital Drive Saint Johnsbury Vermont 05819Dialysis Stations: 13 (802) 751-8735