Peak Resources - Shelby

We would like to note that this facility received favorable marks in the category of short-term care this year. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a B+. This proved to be the facility's best grade and helped its profile quite a bit. Short-term care grades are commonly used to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Inspections is another category where this facility excelled. In fact, we awarded this facility an B+ for our inspections category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. Our nursing rating includes a handful of datapoints, however, the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

The last category we assessed is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category, which is a very poor grade. This is obviously a significant disappointment. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 96.385544 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.