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Jackson County medical care facility reports 5-star rating but faces budget shortfall and Medicaid timing issues
Summary
Facility director reported high quality ratings and improving staffing metrics but year-to-date operations were behind budget; commissioners were asked to advocate for an MOE freeze in the legislature.
Destiny, director of the Jackson County Medical Care Facility, told county commissioners the facility retains a five-star rating overall and has improved turnover metrics: a 24.3% overall nursing turnover rate and a 7.7% RN turnover rate, the lowest in the facility’s 25-mile market area.
She said the facility went seven months without mandating nurses to work extra shifts, has been added to a hospital preferred-provider network and reported growing census in July and August with only two beds empty at the time of the meeting.
But financials through June showed operating challenges. The director…
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