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Nim Henson Geriatric Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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420 Jett Drive,
Jackson KY 41339

(606) 666-2456

41.41% estimated occupancy ¹

Nim Henson Geriatric Center is located in Jackson, Kentucky. This city has a population of 10,957 people. Featuring an overall score of C, this is a middle of the pack nursing home. You could definitely do worse than this place. One of the major highlights of this facility's report card is its exemplary inspection reports, which we will address 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

Specialized Services

Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Nutritional Counseling

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Facility Inspections

We want to point out that this nursing home really outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Long-term Care Quality

We also gave this nursing home a strong score in long-term care. This facility earned a B+ in this category, which is one of our better scores. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.611115 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

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Short-term Care Quality

The third highest area we gave this facility in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a C. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is often a meaningful measure of the facility's rehabilitation. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

Nurse Quality

Turning to the fourth area, this nursing home did not perform very well. Due to a poor grade of F in nursing, this was this facility's poorest grade. Our nursing score looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This nursing home also had terrible marks in several of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than twice the national average in this metric.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Nim Henson Geriatric Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Nim Henson Geriatric Center, 18.39% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Nim Henson Geriatric Center, 2.78% of Patients had Serious Falls

This gauges the percent of long-term care patients which have suffered a fall resulting in serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Nim Henson Geriatric Center, 1.46% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic may also be misleading for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Nim Henson Geriatric Center, 24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents which are given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Nim Henson Geriatric Center, 49.63% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of residents given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Nim Henson Geriatric Center, 4.76% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents who are showing signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Nim Henson Geriatric Center, 98.47% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay 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 well-being.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Nim Henson Geriatric Center, 11.21% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate decline of a patient's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Nim Henson Geriatric Center, 9.22% of Residents

This is the percentage of patients who were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Nim Henson Geriatric Center, 9.22% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Nim Henson Geriatric Center, 6.09% of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of short-term care.