Mountain Manor of Paintsville

This nursing home earned an inspection score which is stronger than its overall grade. Inspection ratings are based on the nursing home's recent government inspections. We awarded this nursing home a very solid grade of B in this category. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Another one of this nursing home's more favorable category scores was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 94.79452 percent of its patients, which is higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

The final category we rated was short-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in this area. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is considered to be a reliable assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The critical question is whether this adversely impacted quality of care. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.