Piketon Nursing Center

Although we gave this place a terrible overall score, we gave it a B for our inspections rating. This was the result of the facility receiving a decent inspection report this year. Our inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid places with a list of severe deficiencies flagged. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this facility an C. The nursing grade is based on several subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below average. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

Incredibly, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for its short-term care score, which isn't too bad of a score. Short-term care scores are meaningful for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

Moving on to our fourth area, this facility didn't fare very well here either. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care may not provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes provide. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 91.8239 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be a few points below what we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.