Russell Regional Hospital Ltcu

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received a very impressive long-term care rating. In fact, this turned out to be its best category. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 96.15385 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility also was given a strong short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this category. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility also received top notch government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The final category we assessed is nursing. In this category, we gave this nursing home a B-. There are numerous criteria included in this category. Most of the factors are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care provided.