Nhc Healthcare, Mcminnville

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility was given elite marks in the area of long-term care. For this reason, it was given one of our best scores in that category with a score of A+. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 97.39884 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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+. Our nursing grade looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we rated turned out to be this facility's worst category. Nevertheless, even its weakest link would likely be a highlight for most facilities. We gave it a favorable grade of B for short-term care. In computing these short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.