Wilkinson County Senior Care

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing grade weighs several components, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically have few of these severe deficiencies. 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.

We also would like to alert you to the fact that this facility received a superb grade of A in our long-term care category. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 95 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the final category we graded, this nursing home received an impressive grade grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this grade, the facility topped off a very impressive report card. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.