Queen City Nursing Center

Queen City Nursing Center is a nursing home located in Meridian, Mississippi, a city with a total of 67,084 people. We awarded this facility an overall grade of A-, making it ranked among the top three facilities in Meridian. As far as we can see, this nursing home would be a no brainer for most people. This nursing home also received consistently good ratings in all four of the major categories. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.

On top of receiving an elite overall rating, this nursing home received an A+ inspection score. This is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a nursing home. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its high-end resume, this facility also performed well in our long-term care category. In fact, it received a score of A for that area. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.54751 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 3.18 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this wasn't as favorable as most of its other scores in this category, this statistic can be skewed for some facilities based on some of the medical complexity of residents.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. There are many criteria included in this category. Most of the datapoints reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provides an impressive 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Of this total, more than one quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. We add more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses in computing our nursing scores. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we scored was short-term care. This nursing home was awarded a strong nursing score in our assessment, with a grade of B. Even though this was not nearly as dominant as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of the stronger scores in that category. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is generally a solid measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 39.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home permanently.