Quitman County Health & Rehab

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ long-term care grade. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 98.8024 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. When computing our nursing grades, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we scored is short-term care, in which this facility received a grade of B-. Even though this proved to be its lowest category rating, this is nevertheless not a poor grade. Short-term care scores are meaningful for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.