Ruleville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Ruleville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is one of just a couple available nursing homes located in Ruleville, Mississippi. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack rating. In our view, this facility looks like a solid choice for most people. One of the major highlights of this facility's profile is its exemplary inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also performed well in the area of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that area, which is one of our highest scores. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. 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 facility provided the vaccine to 97.862236 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. The last datapoint we looked at was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 4.82 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this admittedly wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this area, this number can be skewed for some nursing homes due to the medical complexity of residents.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. The nursing category consists of quite a few factors, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. In addition to receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found this facility was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic really dragged down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.

The next category we scored is short-term care. We gave it a lowly F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel score. This is certainly a major disappointment. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various 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. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 24.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.