New Madrid Living Center

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection ratings are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category grades was in the area of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B+. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility ended up receiving a an abysmal grade in our short-term care category. It received a lowly F in this category. Short-term care grades are generally used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. With its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the figures we assessed. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The final area we assessed is nursing, which turned out to be this nursing home's worst area. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is obviously very concerning. We weighed the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses spent with residents, in determining our grade in this category. This nursing home averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.