Mitchell County Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is a government-owned nursing home with 54 beds, usually holding about 47 residents each day, and you'll find it's not inside a hospital but offers round-the-clock skilled nursing care and rehabilitation services like physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy right there on site, which helps people with different needs like Alzheimer's, heart problems, COPD, cancer, depression, diabetes, stroke, and more, with most residents being about 79 years old on average. The staff gives care that includes blood administration, clinical labs, dietary services, pharmacy help, podiatry, mental health, dental care, physician checkups, and social work support, and you'll see activities set up by a coordinator, as well as family and resident councils in place for feedback, plus a homelike setting, housekeeping, and laundry services. The center's got a full sprinkler system for safety, follows food safety rules, keeps medicines locked up, and runs programs to fight infection, while residents can choose about their own care, including making advance directives or refusing treatments, and the facility cares for folks with incontinence, infections, or those needing special vaccinations.
Medicare and Medicaid are both accepted, and there have been regular health and fire inspections with fixes as recent as February 2025, but you'll want to know that regulatory agencies like the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services have put this place on the Special Focus Facility list, meaning it's had a fair share of serious quality problems over time, so staffing has been an issue and the home's been flagged for unsafe staffing levels, actual harm incidents, and it shows up on the nursing home watchlist because of this, with ratings that are mostly low-only 1 star for long-term care, staffing, and quality, and a general rating of 1 out of 5 stars, but a recent health inspection score of 4 stars. Nursing care runs with about 1.68 hours from RNs each day, 1.26 hours from licensed staff, and 3.19 total nursing hours per resident daily, with a full-time director of nursing, though physical therapist staffing shows zero hours reported. Only about 11 percent of residents and 7 percent of staff are up-to-date with Covid-19 boosters, while about two-thirds of residents and under half of staff have finished the first round of vaccinations.
Even with challenges in staffing, which is a known concern, you'll see family councils and activity programs aiming to keep residents engaged, and services in place for therapy, pharmacy, mental health, x-rays, and social work. The beds are mainly used for long-term care, and the place isn't joined with a continuing care community, so it mainly sticks to skilled nursing and rehab services. Residents there pay around $129 a day, and the nursing team-which many say is caring and committed-works hard to meet the needs of people living there. The facility sits near emergency and inpatient hospital care and, while it's had some problems and keeps working on improvements, it does try to follow the rules for resident dignity, rights, and safety.
