Wythe Cnty Community Hosp Ecu

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ in short-term care. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more important for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility also received an A+ inspection score, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This score is based on the place's inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. Inspection scores are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspections. Places that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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.

Turning our third area, this facility received first-rate long-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A in this category. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the final category, this facility also performed admirably in the nursing category. In fact, we gave it an A for this area. This wrapped up a straight A report card. When calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the number of hours nurses spend with patients and the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.