Pikeville Nursing and Rehab Center

In addition to performing well overall, this facility earned nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that area with an A+. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also was given a top-shelf long-term care score. We gave them a strong strong of A- in this category. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a life threatening illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The third area we graded is short-term care. This nursing home received a favorable short-term care score, with a B in the area. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 4.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The last category we rated was nursing. We gave this nursing home a decent grade in that category, with a grade of B-. Even though this was not as high as several of this nursing home's other grades, it is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. Nursing scores are mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This place provided just 0 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a relatively low total compared to most other nursing homes. Lastly, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing ratings. This facility was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.