Mullican Care Center

It should also be noted that this nursing home's long-term care rating was better than its overall grade. In fact, we awarded it a B for its long-term care grade, which is one of our better grades. This helped its overall grade. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Remarkably, this facility actually earned a good grade in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better grades. We believe that one of the most important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you 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. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. Our nursing rating weighs a handful of factors, however, the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it scored well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care provided.

This nursing home's worst category is short-term care, which is the final category we looked at. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D. Short-term care grades are critical for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With a score in this range for this category, we were not stunned to learn that this place was well below average in the two key staffing metrics we looked at. In fact, it offered significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below the national average.