Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation is a small nursing home located in Ripley, Mississippi. It looks like this nursing home is ranked among the better nursing homes we assessed. A grade of this caliber requires high-end marks across the board. This grade is higher than the city grade of A- in Ripley, which is also an impressive grade. This nursing home also received consistently good grades in all of the major categories. More information about these categories is available below.
Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to being an elite facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Very few nursing homes performed as well in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. It does not look like we have deficiency data for this facility. Without having access to information regarding deficiencies for this nursing home, it ended up being difficult to fully assess it in the area of inspections.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving patients even once per day.
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Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home is also above average in the area of long-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this category. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 81.74603 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be slightly less than we expected but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Short-term Care Quality
The last category we graded was short-term care. In this area, we gave this facility a favorable grade of B. Short-term care grades are critical for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation, 10.72% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation, 3.26% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric indicates the percent of long-term patients who had falls resulting in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation, 3.03% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to poorer hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation, 20.18% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that are administered antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely on these medications due to having more patients with cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation, 22.76% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term care residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation, 2.3% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation, 93.75% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation, 18.95% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and eating. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation, 20.82% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation, 1.95 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation, 20.82 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Rest Haven Health and Rehabilitation, 13.63 Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Nearby Hospitals
- Tippah County HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 0.24 miles away1005 City Ave North Ripley Mississippi 38663Government - Local(662) 837-9221
Nearby Dialysis
- Renal Care Group Tupelo, LLC18.03 miles away925 Denmill Road New Albany Mississippi 38652CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (662) 534-0126