Get our free e-book to learn all about your senior care options.

Ms Care Center of Morton

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating

See Rating Overview

Ms Care Center of Morton's website

96 Old Highway 80 East/P. O. Box 459,
Morton MS 39117

(601) 732-6361

93.75% estimated occupancy ¹

Ms Care Center of Morton is an average-sized nursing home located in Morton, Mississippi. Featuring an overall rating of A-, this nursing home is among the higher-rated nursing homes we looked at. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top quarter of all nursing homes in the United States. If you look below, you can see this nursing home's category ratings, which are also quite good.

Get pricing and details on Morton senior living options.

Get Pricing

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
Has Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Home Making
Speech Therapy
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Palliative Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Mental Health
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy
Optometry
Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Get our free e-book to learn all about your senior care options.

Awards

Top Nursing Home in Mississippi Awards 2019

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2022)

Less:

July

August

September

October

November

December

January

February

March

April

May

June

Facility Inspections

We also wanted to emphasize that this nursing home earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Our inspection grades account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Long-term Care Quality

We also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received a dominant grade of A- in our long-term care category. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.4375 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Does this page answer your questions about Ms Care Center of Morton?

Nurse Quality

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the number of hours nurses spend with patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

The next area we looked at is short-term care, in which this nursing home was given a grade of B. This actually is this facility's least impressive category. A nursing home could be doing a lot worse when their worst score still beats out most other nursing homes. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is considered to be a fair assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Ms Care Center of Morton Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Ms Care Center of Morton, 3.95% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Ms Care Center of Morton, 2.86% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents which have sustained falls which caused major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Ms Care Center of Morton, 9.24% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely associated with a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may be skewed for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Ms Care Center of Morton, 18.5% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Ms Care Center of Morton, 17.76% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Ms Care Center of Morton, 5.25% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Many in the industry would argue this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Ms Care Center of Morton, 98.97% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Ms Care Center of Morton, 17.47% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Ms Care Center of Morton, 20.35% of Residents

This indicates the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Ms Care Center of Morton, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to the physical health of residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Ms Care Center of Morton, 20.35% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Ms Care Center of Morton, 9.74% of Patients

This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge patient care during rehabilitation.