Reelfoot Manor Health and Rehab

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another one of this facility's higher category scores was in the category of long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B+. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 87.128716 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we anticipated but still a decent figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to the category of short-term care, this facility received a grade of just D in this area. Short-term care grades are typically employed to grade a facility's rehabilitation services In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. With its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. The last statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. This was well below the national average.

The last area we scored is nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is a rock bottom grade. This is certainly a major disappointment. Our nursing score weighs quite a few subcategories, however, the main consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.