Robertson County Health Care Facility

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, it also received a superb long-term care score. In fact, we awarded this nursing home a score of A-. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.53052 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to the category of short-term care, this nursing home was given just a D in that category. Short-term care grades are generally used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next category we graded is nursing. We gave it a lowly F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel score. This is clearly a significant concern. The nursing rating assesses many subcategories, many of which are tied to nursing hours. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.