Rayville Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

This nursing home's best grade came in long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B+. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 64.82758 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Inspections is another area where this facility excelled. We gave this facility an B+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we had a generally favorable view of this facility's recent inspections.

Moving on to the area of short-term care, this nursing home received a grade of just D in that category. In determining these short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. With its score in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected here. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

The next category we rated was nursing, which was this nursing home's weakest area. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this category, which is clearly concerning. The nursing rating is based on quite a few data points, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of being below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor scores in the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.