Pruitthealth- Estill

One of the reasons this place is a quality nursing home is that it received an impressive inspection rating. Inspections turned out to be its best category. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Inspection ratings are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Our nursing grade considers a number of subcategories. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to the third category, this facility also earned a score of B for its long-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 96.385544 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next area we analyzed was short-term care, in which this facility received a B. This nursing home didn't turn out to have any weak grades. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.