Paul E Patton Eastern Ky Veterans Center

Paul E Patton Eastern Ky Veterans Center is located in Hazard, Kentucky. This facility is among the most impressive facilities we found. This nursing home received one of the highest ratings we offer. You flat out can not do any better than this nursing home. We also gave this facility phenomenal scores in all of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility has received near flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency data for this facility. Without deficiency related data for this facility, it is difficult to really evaluate it in the inspections category.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing score is mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This place boasts a really impressive 4.8 hours of nursing care per resident daily, of which a significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facility also received a top-shelf long-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being this nursing home's third strongest category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. After considering the impressive nursing care provided by this nursing home, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is much higher than most nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.11 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

The final category we analyzed is this nursing home's weakest area. Nevertheless, even its lowest point would actually be a strength for many facilities. In fact, we awarded it a strong grade of B for our short-term care category. Our short-term care scores are thought to be more important for people in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. When we assessed this place's nursing hours, we found it provided quite a bit more care from registered nurses than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 24.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.