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Anytime that you are rated # 2, the only thing to strive for is # 1. For East Mississippi State Hospital, having its nursing home division, The Reginald P. White Nursing Facility, just named U.S. News and World Report’s best nursing home in Mississippi for 2012 means that a set goal has been attained. In 2011, RPWNF was ranked # 2 by U.S. News. Receiving 5 stars out of a possible 5 stars in every category measured----health inspections, nurse staffing, and measures of medical-care quality, EMSH’s nursing home, which is a state government facility, was one of 39 in the entire country to receive a perfect 5 star status.
According to Avery Comarow of U.S. News, “one in seven Americans age 65 and older will spend time in one of the nation's 16,000 nursing homes this year and for those 85 and older, the chances are more than one in five. The numbers add up to about 3.3 million Americans. How will those millions of people and their families find a source of good care? To help them out, U.S. News displays data about nearly every nursing facility in the United States, updating the information every quarter and using it to rate and rank the homes.”
Data from Nursing Home Compare, a consumer web site run by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is used to provide the information that U.S. News publishes annually. Regular health inspections carried out by state agencies and from the homes themselves submit the data to Nursing Home Compare. Charles Carlisle, EMSH’s Hospital Director remarks, “It has long been questioned whether a state psychiatric hospital should be in the nursing home business. I think that this first place rating says it all. The staff makes the difference and the credit should go to them! Our heartfelt thanks goes out to the Mississippi Legislature, the Board of Mental Health, and the Executive Director of the Department of Mental Health for the insight they had to push for and fully fund our Nursing Home Division with a state of the art facility which, since its opening in 2006, has met or exceeded all of our expectations.”
EMSH’s R.P. White Nursing Facility is located on North Lakeland Drive, just beyond the Soccer Complex on Old 8th Street Road in west Meridian.
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Earlier this week, U.S. News & World Report rated the Reginald P. White Nursing Facility the best in Mississippi for 2012. Submitted photo
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