Superior Care Home
100 Marshall Court, Paducah KY 42001 · (270) 442-6884 · 75.55% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in Paducah, Kentucky, Superior Care Home is one of four available nursing homes in the city. This facility is ranked among the most elite nursing homes we assessed. This nursing home was given one of the best grades that we offer. Indeed, we were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it as the number one nursing home in Paducah. As you can find below, this place also performed just fine in our category scores. It is hard to find any major flaws in this place's profile.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 108 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also received a dominant long-term care grade. This actually ended up being this nursing home's second best category grade. In that category, this facility received a grade of A. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the criteria we considered in addition to this facility's impressive nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for seniors. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.71 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, this facility also was awarded favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our stronger scores in that area, with a grade of B+. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. This place excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It supplied more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the typical nursing home. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that it fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 50.5 percent of its residents returning home. At most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Nurse Quality
Switching gears to our fourth area, this facility received a strong nursing score. While this is not as impressive as several of its other grades, this remains one of our better scores we offer. Our nursing score assesses quite a few factors, but the paramount one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 5.7 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which was among the more impressive figures we found. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients sustaining falls which lead to major injury, this nursing home performed better than the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Superior Care Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who suffer from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents that have sustained a fall which caused major injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from UTI's. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility. Many in the industry argue that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better