Murfreesboro Rehab and Nursing

Murfreesboro Rehab and Nursing is the sole option we found in Murfreesboro, Arkansas. With an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. This facility is just about as bad as it gets. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is long-term care, which is discussed in the next section.

Although we gave this facility an abysmal overall score, we surprisingly awarded it a B for our long-term care rating. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. The last statistic we assessed was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 3.52 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this admittedly wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this area, this figure may be skewed for some facilities due to the medical complexity of residents.

This place actually performed well in inspections as well. We awarded it a B- for that category, which is a respectable score. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care score. This is well below average in this category. Our short-term care grade is often employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. As you might expect, we discovered that this nursing home offers substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The final measure we considered in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below average.

The next category we analyzed was nursing. It received a lowly F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel score. The nursing category analyzes many data points, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged a meager 2.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.