Wallace County Community Care Center

The main thing propping up this nursing home's profile is its elite nursing rating. In fact, we gave this facility an A- in that category. Nursing grades are primarily associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also received an impressive short-term care score. Indeed, we gave them a B+ in this category, which is one of our better. In calculating these short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Another one of this nursing home's more favorable category scores came in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After we finished assessing the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 58.10811 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we looked at is inspections. This nursing home didn't receive glowing inspections in recent years. We had to give it an F in this category. Since this information is collected by independent government inspectors, we tend to heavily weight a poor performance in this area. This really pulled down this facility's overall grade. For facilities that received this poor of an inspection rating, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility had 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years totaling more than $100,000. This often indicates that a poor performance spanned several years.