Pearl River County Hospital & Nursing Home

In addition to being a top notch facility overall, this place also performed well in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its top-shelf assessment, this nursing home also was awarded a strong long-term care grade, with a grade of A. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 98.28432 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. We analyzed the licensure of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses worked with patients, in computing our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to the last category, this nursing home also performed admirably in our short-term care category. We gave it a grade of A- for that category. This topped off a straight A report card. In our short-term care assessment, we seek to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.