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Mulberry Creek Nursing and Rehab Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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300 Blue Ridge Street,
Martinsville VA 24112

(540) 265-0322

55.1% estimated occupancy ¹

Mulberry Creek Nursing and Rehab Center is a very-large non-profit nursing home in Martinsville, Virginia. This proved to be a highly rated facility, with an overall grade of B+. Based on our ratings, you can do much worse than this place. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Corporation

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Facility Inspections

To pair with a strong overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspection category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without all of the information regarding deficiencies for this nursing home, it ended up being challenging to really evaluate it in terms of this category.

Long-term Care Quality

We also awarded this facility a score of A- for our long-term care grade. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After considering the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.834435 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

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Nurse Quality

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Nursing scores are primarily based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving residents more frequently.

Short-term Care Quality

This nursing home's worst area is short-term care, which is the final area we looked at. It received an abysmal F for this area. In spite of several strong grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless somewhat alarming so we wanted to draw your attention to it. Our short-term care grade is often used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Mulberry Creek Nursing and Rehab Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Mulberry Creek Nursing and Rehab Center, 4.28% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Mulberry Creek Nursing and Rehab Center, 1.49% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents who have had a fall resulting in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Mulberry Creek Nursing and Rehab Center, 1.37% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often linked to a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric can be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Mulberry Creek Nursing and Rehab Center, 18.75% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Mulberry Creek Nursing and Rehab Center, 24.36% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Mulberry Creek Nursing and Rehab Center, 3.27% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. Higher rates of depression could indicate lower quality care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Mulberry Creek Nursing and Rehab Center, 98.98% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient safety.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Mulberry Creek Nursing and Rehab Center, 13.64% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Mulberry Creek Nursing and Rehab Center, 9.95% of Residents

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents who remained mobile levels. Some argue that mobility is vital to residents' mental and physical well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Mulberry Creek Nursing and Rehab Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to maintaining the physical well-being of patients.