Western State Nursing Facility

Western State Nursing Facility is a large government-owned nursing home in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. With an overall rating of A+, this nursing home is clearly an elite facility. In fact, this nursing home has the prestigious distinction of being one of the 25 best nursing homes in Kentucky. This facility also received very consistent ratings in all of the major categories. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. After assessing the impressive nursing hours provided by this nursing home, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.4 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 1.91 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is middle of the road in this area.

This first-rate facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating is mostly based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 6.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Lastly, this place was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

This nursing home also earned a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our top scores in that area with an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Switching gears to the final category, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care category. We gave it a grade of B+ in that area. This rounded out a first-rate profile. In computing our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is generally a meaningful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.