Tishomingo Comm Living Center is located in Iuka, Mississippi. The city has a population of 9,449 people. This nursing home proved to be a solid facility, with an overall grade of C. Based on our ratings, there are definitely far worse facilities out there. We were also pleased to discover that this place received consistently decent grades in each of the major categories. More information about its category grades can be found below.
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Tishomingo Comm Living Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- X-Ray
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Nurse Quality
This facility's nursing score is notably more impressive than its overall score. Due to a strong performance in this area, it received one of our better scores in that category with a B+. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. 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 facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next most favorable category ended up being its short-term care grade, where it was awarded a B-. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.
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Long-term Care Quality
The next area we assessed is long-term care, where this nursing home received a B- in this area. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 99.15966 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Facility Inspections
The final category we looked at is inspections. Inspection ratings are based on a nursing home's recent government inspections. This facility received a score of C in this category. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Tishomingo Comm Living Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Tishomingo Comm Living Center, 10.06% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term patients who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Tishomingo Comm Living Center, 2.52% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients that have had a fall which caused major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Tishomingo Comm Living Center, 0.46% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely caused by poor nursing care. Better nursing care can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Tishomingo Comm Living Center, 32.88% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Tishomingo Comm Living Center, 30.93% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term patients who were given antianxiety medication. These medications are generally given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Tishomingo Comm Living Center, 3.52% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who are demonstrating signs of depression. Many in the industry argue that this is a reasonable measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Tishomingo Comm Living Center, 99.21% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Tishomingo Comm Living Center, 12.23% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate the deterioration of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Tishomingo Comm Living Center, 18.44% of Residents
This is the percent of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Tishomingo Comm Living Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Tishomingo Comm Living Center, 18.44% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Tishomingo Comm Living Center, 13.64% of Patients
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Tishomingo Comm Living Center, 34.08% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with activities of daily living usually correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Tishomingo Health Services IncAcute Care Hospitals 0.63 miles away1777 Curtis Drive Iuka Mississippi 38852Voluntary non-profit - Private(662) 423-6051