NMMC - PONTOTOC NURSING HOME (PONTOTOC, MS) Detailed Nursing Home Profile

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Average number of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack got an ECG

This Nursing Home:	14
State:	12

Average number of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack were transferred to another hospital

Here:	148
State:	81

Outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who got aspirin within 24 hours of arrival

This Nursing Home:	97.0%
Mississippi:	93.9%

Heart Failure

Percent of patients who were given an evaluation of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.3%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
Mississippi:	90.8%

Pneumonia

Percent of Patients Given Initial Antibiotic(s) within 6 Hours After Arrival

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
State:	96.2%

Percent of Patients Whose Initial ER Blood Culture Was Performed Prior To Administration Of First Dose Of Antibiotics

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.9%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
Mississippi:	97.9%

Percent of Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)

Here:	94.0%
State:	93.2%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	94.0%
State:	93.8%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Nursing Home:	11.5%
State:	12.2%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	10.7%
Mississippi:	13.2%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	24.5%
State:	26.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	18.7%
Mississippi:	19.6%

Staff Information

Number of Registered Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.670
Mississippi:	0.625

Number of Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.950
State:	0.996

Total Number of Licensed Staff Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	1.620
Mississippi:	1.616

Use of Medical Imaging

Outpatient CT scans of the abdomen that were combination (double) scans.

This Nursing Home:	0.017%
Mississippi:	0.163%

Outpatients with brain CT scans who got a sinus CT scan at the same time

Here:	5.200%
Mississippi:	4.103%

Complaint Deficiency

Provide housekeeping and maintenance services
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Keep the rate of medication errors (wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong time) to less than 5%
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Exits that are accessible at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Corridors or aisles that are unobstructed and are at least 8 feet in width
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Provide housekeeping and maintenance services
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Maintain drug records and properly mark/label drugs and other similar products according to accepted professional standards
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Make sure there is a pest control program to prevent/deal with mice, insects, or other pests
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Weekly inspections and monthly testing of generators
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Make sure that each resident who enters the nursing home without a catheter is not given a catheter, and receive proper services to prevent urinary tract infections and restore normal bladder function
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Fewer than 100
Survey Response Rate: 23%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	3%
State:	5%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	10%
Mississippi:	15%

Always

Here:	87%
State:	80%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	2%
State:	4%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	7%
Mississippi:	11%

Always

Here:	91%
Mississippi:	85%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	9%
State:	11%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	15%
Mississippi:	22%

Always

Here:	76%
State:	67%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	14%
Mississippi:	8%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	16%
Mississippi:	20%

Always

Here:	70%
Mississippi:	72%

How often did staff explain about medicines before giving them to patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	13%
State:	21%

Usually

Here:	18%
State:	17%

Always

This Nursing Home:	69%
Mississippi:	62%

How often were the patients' rooms and bathrooms kept clean?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	8%
State:	10%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	15%
Mississippi:	18%

Always

Here:	77%
Mississippi:	72%

How often was the area around patients' rooms kept quiet at night?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	2%
Mississippi:	7%

Usually

Here:	20%
Mississippi:	24%

Always

This Nursing Home:	78%
Mississippi:	69%

Were patients given information about what to do during their recovery at home?

Yes

Here:	80%
Mississippi:	79%

Here:	20%
Mississippi:	21%

How do patients rate the hospital overall on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)?

6 or lower

This Nursing Home:	8%
Mississippi:	10%

7 or 8

This Nursing Home:	9%
State:	22%

9 or 10

Here:	83%
Mississippi:	68%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Nursing Home:	4%
Mississippi:	6%

Yes, probably

Here:	22%
Mississippi:	26%

Yes, definitely

Here:	74%
Mississippi:	68%

Quality Measures

Percent of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased

Here:	13.5%
Mississippi:	18.2%

Percent of long-stay residents who lose too much weight

This Nursing Home:	9.3%
State:	7.8%

Percent of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection

This Nursing Home:	7.0%
State:	7.3%

Percent of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms

This Nursing Home:	12.2%
Mississippi:	2.8%

Percent of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury

This Nursing Home:	2.3%
Mississippi:	2.9%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
State:	94.9%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
State:	96.7%

Percent of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication

This Nursing Home:	7.7%
State:	26.8%

NMMC - PONTOTOC NURSING HOME - PONTOTOC, MS

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Outcome of Care

Staff Information

Use of Medical Imaging

Complaint Deficiency

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Quality Measures

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