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Tippah County Nursing Home

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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Tippah County Nursing Home's website

1005 City Avenue North,
Ripley MS 38663

(662) 837-9221

89.75% estimated occupancy ¹

Tippah County Nursing Home is a senior living facility located in Ripley, Mississippi, which has 11,950 people. Featuring an overall grade of A, this is clearly a top-shelf facility. Based on our ratings, this place is simply as good as it gets. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's stellar report card is its inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Government - County
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Speech Therapy
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Mental Health
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Laboratory
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management

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Awards

Top Nursing Home in Mississippi Awards 2021

Best Nursing Home in Ripley, Mississippi Awards 2021

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Facility Inspections

To pair with a favorable overall grade, we gave this facility an A+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. 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.

Long-term Care Quality

To complement its strong achievements in other areas, we awarded this facility a score of A for our long-term care rating. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

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Nurse Quality

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. Our nursing score includes several factors, but the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

The next category we scored is short-term care. We gave this facility one of our better grades in this category, with a grade of B. Although this wasn't on par with some of this nursing home's other scores, it is still a positive grade. Short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 3.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Tippah County Nursing Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Tippah County Nursing Home, 13.54% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Tippah County Nursing Home, 4.32% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of patients that have had a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls which result in injury are often caused by poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Tippah County Nursing Home, 0% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often caused by worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint can be misleading for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Tippah County Nursing Home, 33.33% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents who are prescribed antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs aren't medically indicated. However, some facilities need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of patients with cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Tippah County Nursing Home, 52.29% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally used to treat residents experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Tippah County Nursing Home, 9.02% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are showing depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Tippah County Nursing Home, 99.24% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Tippah County Nursing Home, 24.51% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Tippah County Nursing Home, 33.59% of Residents

This tells you the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Tippah County Nursing Home, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Tippah County Nursing Home, 33.59% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.