Sharkey-Issaquena Nursing Home
431 West Race Street, Rolling Fork MS 39159 · (662) 873-5189 · 84.62% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Sharkey-Issaquena Nursing Home is a small government-owned facility in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. Sporting an overall grade of D, this is a relatively poor facility. Based on our analysis, this facility may not be the best fit for most prospective residents. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was inspections, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 54 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B- for inspections. This score is more respectable than this place's overall grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.
Nurse Quality
We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B- in the area. Nursing grades are mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. With 4.5 hours of nursing care per resident daily, this nursing home surpassed the national average. We also look at the skill levels of these nurses and apply more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as minimizing major falls. This place performed admirably in this statistic.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's third highest area turned out to be long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B-. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. This nursing home's vaccination data were not as strong as its number of nursing hours per resident. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 87.76596 percent of its residents. We'd love to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. This nursing home did not excel here either, with 5.85 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this number can be skewed for some facilities due to the preexisting medical conditions of patients.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at is short-term care, which is a low point for this nursing home. We gave this facility a grade of just D in our short-term care category. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most meaningful for residents needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. With a grade of this caliber in this area, we were not stunned to find this nursing home was below average in two of the key staffing areas we focus on. It supplied significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 17.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics doomed this facility's short-term care grade.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sharkey-Issaquena Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had UTI's. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better