Vanceburg Rehabilitation and Care

With an address in Vanceburg, Kentucky, Vanceburg Rehabilitation and Care is the lone nursing home located in the city. Featuring an overall score of D, this is a relatively poor facility. As far as we can see, we'd be very reluctant to recommend this facility. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its strong inspection rating. You can continue reading to learn more about inspections and other category scores

While we were not high on this nursing home's overall grade, it received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A+. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home's second highest score was long-term care, but even there it earned a grade of just D in that area. This still happens to be a well below average grade. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 98.0226 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.5 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Nursing scores are tied to nurse staffing levels. This facility offered only 2.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. This place also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.

The last area we looked at was short-term care, in which this facility was given a rock bottom score here as well. We gave it an F for this area, which is definitely a major disappointment. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Considering its poor score in this area, we were not shocked to discover that this place provided significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 30.2 percent of its residents returning home.