Tupelo Community Care Center

Working at Tupelo Community Care Center

Tupelo Community Care Center is a 120-bed nursing home in Tupelo, Mississippi. Over the 12-month period CMS measures, 44.4% of its registered nurses stopped working here. Across the 179 Mississippi nursing homes CMS reports, the average is 36.6%, so RN turnover here is higher than at 66% of nursing homes in the state.

Staffing tells the same kind of story. Residents here receive about 29 minutes of RN time per day, against 38 minutes across Mississippi. That is less RN coverage than most Mississippi nursing homes. CMS gives Tupelo Community Care Center a staffing rating of 4 out of 5.

Turnover for the whole nursing team, which counts RNs, LPNs and nurse aides, is 55.6% here compared with 44.7% statewide.

What this means if you apply here

• Higher RN turnover means you may be training alongside newer colleagues. Ask what the facility is doing to keep its nurses.
• RN hours per resident run below the state average, so ask how assignments are built on your shift.

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