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Breathitt Health & Rehabilitation

420 Jett Drive, Jackson, KY 41339 · Breathitt County · (606) 666-2456

120 certified beds, about 68 residents a day · For profit - Corporation · Medicare and Medicaid since 1972

Certified for Medicaid Certified for Medicare
Overall
2 of 5
Health inspections
2 of 5
Staffing
3 of 5
Quality measures
4 of 5

CMS Care Compare ratings, data as of September 1, 2026 · CCN 185112 · See it on Medicare.gov · Compare with other homes

The record in brief

At its most recent standard inspection, on March 20, 2026, inspectors cited 1 health deficiency (the Kentucky average is 2.9, the national average 9.2).

Of 7 health citations since August 2019, 3 were rated as actual harm or immediate jeopardy to residents.

CMS lists no fines against this home in the last three years.

Nurses and nurse aides worked 3.35 hours per resident per day, against 3.95 across Kentucky and 3.86 nationally. Registered nurses accounted for 0.97 of those hours.

25.0% of nursing staff left within the year CMS measured (Kentucky average 46.4%).

Health inspections

Federal rules call for a standard inspection at least every 15 months, plus a visit whenever a complaint is filed. Each mark below is one citation, colored by how serious inspectors rated it. How to read a citation.

Under each citation, the quoted text is the inspector's own summary from the federal statement of deficiencies (CMS form 2567), word for word apart from a privacy scrub; CMS removes residents' and staff names before it publishes the text. The full notes are on Medicare.gov.

Potential for minimal harm Potential for more than minimal harm Actual harm Immediate jeopardy Found on a complaint visit

Where its citations fall on CMS's grid

CMS rates every citation by how much harm it caused (rows) and how many residents it touched (columns). The count in each box is this home's, across all 7 health citations on file.

Severity
Isolated
Pattern
Widespread
Immediate jeopardy
0J
0K
0L
Actual harm
3G
0H
0I
Potential for more than minimal harm
3D
0E
1F
Potential for minimal harm
0A
0B
0C
March 20, 2026Standard inspection · 1 citation
  1. D
    Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
    F641 · Resident Assessment and Care Planning · No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated · Corrected (the home has a date of correction) April 1, 2026
    Inspectors wroteBased on interview, record review, facility policy review and review of the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Manual guidelines, the facility failed to ensure the accuracy of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) for two of 41 sampled residents (R) R1 and R5).
February 7, 2025Standard inspection · 6 citations
  1. G
    Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
    F600 · Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation · Actual harm, isolated · Corrected (the home has a date of correction) March 9, 2025
    Inspectors wroteBased on interview, record review and review of the facility's policy, the facility failed to ensure each resident remained free from abuse for 1 of 19 sampled residents, (Resident (R)2). R2 alleged Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)2 was rough while providing care on 12/24/2024. R2 further alleged CNA2 told her, if you report me, I will beat your ass. R2 was crying and told RN1 that she was afraid of CNA2. (Refer to F609, and 610 )
  2. G
    Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
    F609 · Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation · Actual harm, isolated · Corrected (the home has a date of correction) March 9, 2025
    Inspectors wroteBased on interview, record review, and review of the facility's policy, the facility failed to report an allegation of abuse to the State Agencies and local law enforcement for 1 of 19 sampled residents, (Resident (R)2). The facility failed to report an allegation of abuse after R2, while crying, alleged on 12/24/2024, to CNA6 that Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA}2 was rough while providing care and told R2, if you report me, I will beat your ass. R2 then informed RN1 that she was afraid of CNA2. Registered Nurse1 (RN1) Refer to F600 and F610.
  3. G
    Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
    F610 · Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation · Actual harm, isolated · Corrected (the home has a date of correction) March 9, 2025
    Inspectors wroteBased on interview, record review and review of the facility's policy, the facility failed to conduct a thorough investigation in response to an alleged violation of abuse, for 1 of 19 sampled residents (Resident (R)2). R2 reported Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)2 was rough while providing care on 12/24/2024. R2 reported CNA2 told her, if you report me, I will beat your ass. However, the facility failed to conduct a thorough investigation related to the allegation of abuse. CNA2 was allowed to continue working on 12/24/2024 unsupervised, allowing for the potential of further abuse. (Refer to F600, and F609)
  4. F
    Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
    F812 · Nutrition and Dietary · No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespread · Corrected (the home has a date of correction) March 9, 2025
    Inspectors wroteBased on observation, interview, and review of the facility's policies, the facility failed to store, prepare, distribute, and serve food in a sanitary manner. Dietary staff failed to check six (6) of 12 food temperatures on the steam table during the dinner meal on 02/02/2025. Additionally, dietary staff failed to discard eight (8) expired food items.
  5. D
    Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods.
    F576 · Resident Rights · No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated · Corrected (the home has a date of correction) March 9, 2025
    Inspectors wroteBased on interview, record review, and review of the facility's policy, the Map 14 form, the facility failed to protect the resident's rights to privacy in communications, including the right to receive mail unopened for 1 of 13 residents who attended the Group Interview (Resident (R) 40). R40 received an opened letter addressed to him from the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority.
  6. D
    Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
    F880 · Infection Control · No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated · Corrected (the home has a date of correction) March 9, 2025
    Inspectors wroteBased on observation, interview, record review, and review of the facility's policies, the facility failed to maintain an effective infection prevention and control program designed to provide a safe, sanitary, and comfortable environment and to help prevent the development and transmission of communicable diseases and infections for three (3) of 19 sampled residents (Resident (R)7, R28, and R50). 1. Observation on 02/02/2025 at 6:00 PM, revealed Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)7 failed to don (put on) Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) prior to providing care for R7 who was on Enhanced Barrier Precautions (EBP). Additionally, CNA7 failed to wash or sanitize hands upon exiting R7's room after providing care. 2. Observations on 02/02/2025; 02/03/2025; 02/05/2025; and 02/06/2025, revealed R28's urinal was not labeled with the resident's name, nor was it dated or covered. [...]
August 29, 2019Standard inspection · 0 citations

Fire safety inspections

17 fire safety citations on file: 4 on March 20, 2026, 8 on February 7, 2025, 5 on August 29, 2019.

Every fire safety citation17 citations
  1. D
    Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system.
    K 321 · March 20, 2026 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  2. D
    Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems.
    K 353 · March 20, 2026 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  3. D
    Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke.
    K 363 · March 20, 2026 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  4. D
    Ensure smoke barriers are constructed to a 1 hour fire resistance rating.
    K 372 · March 20, 2026 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  5. F
    Ensure that testing and maintenance of electrical equipment is performed.
    K 921 · February 7, 2025 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  6. E
    Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system.
    K 321 · February 7, 2025 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  7. E
    Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke.
    K 363 · February 7, 2025 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  8. D
    Add doors in an exit area that do not require the use of a key from the exit side unless in case of special locking arrangements.
    K 222 · February 7, 2025 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  9. D
    Provide properly protected cooking facilities.
    K 324 · February 7, 2025 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  10. D
    Install an approved automatic sprinkler system.
    K 351 · February 7, 2025 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  11. D
    Have restrictions on the use of portable space heaters.
    K 781 · February 7, 2025 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  12. D
    Have proper medical gas storage and administration areas.
    K 923 · February 7, 2025 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  13. F
    Have simulated fire drills held at unexpected times.
    K 712 · August 29, 2019 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  14. E
    Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke.
    K 363 · August 29, 2019 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  15. E
    Have proper medical gas storage and administration areas.
    K 923 · August 29, 2019 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  16. D
    Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system.
    K 321 · August 29, 2019 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)
  17. D
    Meet other general requirements that are deficient.
    K 500 · August 29, 2019 · Corrected (the home has a date of correction)

Fines and payment denials

CMS lists no fines or payment denials against this home in the last three years. The national average is 0.9 fines per home.

Staffing

Hours of care per resident per day, from the payroll records every home sends CMS. Higher means more staff time with each resident.

MeasureThis homeKentuckyUnited States
All nursing staff (RN, LPN and aides)3.353.953.86
Registered nurses0.970.790.69
All nursing staff on weekends2.853.493.42
Nurse aides1.87
Licensed practical nurses0.51
Nursing staff turnover (share who left in a year)25.0%46.4%45.8%
Registered nurse turnover11.1%41.8%42.9%
Administrators who left0

CMS expects 5.96 hours a day for residents as sick as this home's (its case-mix figure). The staffing star compares the two.

Staffing by quarter, from daily payroll records

Every nursing home sends CMS its staff hours for each day (the Payroll Based Journal). Here they are added up by quarter. The latest quarter is the one behind the figures above. In January to March 2026, nursing staff hours per resident were 3.55 on weekdays and 2.85 on weekends, 20% lower on weekends (nationally, weekends ran 15% lower). Contract or agency staff worked 0.0% of nursing hours, against 5.3% nationally. Total nursing hours per resident went from 3.20 in April to June 2025 to 3.35 in January to March 2026.

QuarterAll nursing staffRegistered nursesWeekdaysWeekendsContract staff shareDays with no RN hoursResidents a day
Jan to Mar 20263.350.973.552.85 0.0%0 of 9068
Oct to Dec 20253.150.863.382.56 0.0%0 of 9274
Jul to Sep 20253.060.873.302.45 0.0%0 of 9270
Apr to Jun 20253.200.803.402.72 0.0%0 of 9156
United States, Jan to Mar 20263.750.623.923.335.3%0.5% of days
Kentucky, Jan to Mar 20263.850.714.043.403.2%0.1% of days

Hours per resident per day: staff hours in the quarter divided by resident days (the daily census CMS derives from resident assessments). Registered nurses include the director of nursing and RNs with administrative duties; aides include nurse aides in training and medication aides, as in CMS's own staffing measure. How these are calculated.

Staff pay reports

Staff pay at this home

No staff pay figure for this home has passed review yet. A figure appears only after at least 5 reports from at least 3 different people, sent over at least 60 days, have passed review. If you work here, your report helps start one.

Official wage estimates for Kentucky

JobMedianMiddle halfEmployed
Kentucky, all employers
CNAs (nursing assistants)$18.45$17.38 to $21.2123,410
LPNs and LVNs$29.07$26.10 to $31.298,570
Registered nurses$38.96$36.38 to $46.7350,300
United States, nursing care facilities
CNAs (nursing assistants)$20.67$17.91 to $22.55534,270
LPNs and LVNs$33.86$30.05 to $37.40188,210
Registered nurses$41.11$37.85 to $47.68142,270

Hourly wages; the middle half runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS has no separate estimate for medication aides. These are survey estimates for whole occupations, not figures for any one home.

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Quality measures

The measures CMS uses for the quality star. Lower is better for every one of them.

MeasureThis homeKentuckyUS
Percentage of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased
Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1
8.513.813.9
Percentage of long-stay residents with a catheter inserted and left in their bladder
Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1
0.40.50.8
Percentage of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection
Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1
0.41.61.6
Percentage of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury
Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1
4.63.93.2
Percentage of short-stay residents who newly received an antipsychotic medication
Short Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1
0.01.71.6
Percentage of long-stay residents whose ability to walk independently worsened
Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1
6.914.014.1
Percentage of long-stay residents with pressure ulcers
Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1
2.34.84.6
Percentage of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication
Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1
10.216.115.4
Percentage of short-stay residents who were rehospitalized after a nursing home admission
Short Stay residents, 20250101-20251231
16.124.223.8
Percentage of short-stay residents who had an outpatient emergency department visit
Short Stay residents, 20250101-20251231
15.213.712.0
Number of hospitalizations per 1000 long-stay resident days
Long Stay residents, 20250101-20251231
1.71.91.9
Number of outpatient emergency department visits per 1000 long-stay resident days
Long Stay residents, 20250101-20251231
5.22.11.8

Short-term rehab results

For a stay to recover after a hospital visit, these are the results CMS publishes for Breathitt Health & Rehabilitation's Medicare short-stay residents. On returning residents home or to the community, CMS rates it no different from the national rate (46.3% of residents, after adjusting for how sick they were). How to read these, and what Medicare pays for.

Went home or back to the community

46.3% this home

No different from the national rate

US median of homes 51.5% · Kentucky: 38 better, 49 worse

Rate of successful return to home or community from a SNF (risk-standardized discharge to community rate). Higher is better. October 2022 to September 2024. 41 eligible stays.

Potentially preventable readmissions

11.1% this home

No different from the national rate

US median of homes 10.7% · Kentucky: 0 better, 12 worse

Rate of potentially preventable hospital readmissions 30 days after discharge from a SNF (risk-standardized rate). Lower is better. October 2022 to September 2024. 57 eligible stays.

Infections that led to a hospital stay

11.6% this home

No different from the national rate

US median of homes 7.1% · Kentucky: 0 better, 6 worse

Percentage of infections residents got during their SNF stay that resulted in hospitalization (risk-standardized rate). Lower is better. October 2023 to September 2024. 45 eligible stays.

Self-care and mobility at discharge

4.8% this home

Median of homes: Kentucky49.5% · US 56.6%

Percentage of residents who are at or above an expected ability to care for themselves and move around at discharge. Higher is better. October 2024 to September 2025. 21 residents counted.

Falls with major injury

2.9% this home

Median of homes: Kentucky0.0% · US 0.0%

Percentage of SNF residents who experience one or more falls with major injury during their SNF stay. Lower is better. October 2024 to September 2025. 34 residents counted.

New or worsened pressure ulcers

0.0% this home

Median of homes: Kentucky2.6% · US 1.7%

Percentage of residents with pressure ulcers or pressure injuries that are new or worsened (adjusted rate). Lower is better. October 2024 to September 2025. 34 residents counted.

Medication list given at discharge

Not reported

CMS note: The number of residents or resident stays is too small to report. Call the facility to discuss this quality measure.

Median of homes: Kentucky98.1% · US 98.7%

Percentage of residents where the SNF provided a current medication list to the resident, family, and/or caregiver at final discharge. Higher is better. October 2024 to September 2025. 9 residents counted.

Source: CMS Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program - Provider Data, released 2026-09-30. Better, no different and worse are CMS's own comparisons with the national rate, after adjusting for how sick residents were. Medians of homes and the state counts are worked out by us from the same file.

Owners and operators

Legal business name: Legal Business Name Not Available.

NameRoleTypeShareSince
Ownership data not available

As listed in the CMS ownership file, which names owners with a 5% or greater stake and the people and companies with operational or managerial control.

Questions to ask on a visit

Chosen from this home's own inspection record.

  1. How are allegations of abuse or neglect reported and investigated, and who tells the family?Inspectors cited 3 problems in this area, most recently on February 7, 2025: "Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody."
  2. When is the care plan meeting, and can family attend it?Inspectors cited 1 problem in this area, most recently on March 20, 2026: "Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment."
  3. Can we see a week of menus and the kitchen, and how are special diets handled?Inspectors cited 1 problem in this area, most recently on February 7, 2025: "Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards."
  4. How do residents and families raise a complaint or grievance, and how fast is it answered?Inspectors cited 1 problem in this area, most recently on February 7, 2025: "Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods."
  5. Who is on the floor on Saturday and Sunday, and how many residents does each aide care for?Weekend nurse staffing here was 2.85 hours per resident per day, below the Kentucky average of 3.49.

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Common questions

What is Breathitt Health & Rehabilitation's Medicare star rating?
CMS rates Breathitt Health & Rehabilitation 2 out of 5 stars overall, with 2 for health inspections, 3 for staffing and 4 for quality measures (CMS data as of September 1, 2026).
How many deficiencies did Breathitt Health & Rehabilitation get at its last inspection?
1 health deficiency at the standard inspection on March 20, 2026. The Kentucky average is 2.9.
Has Breathitt Health & Rehabilitation been fined?
CMS lists no fines in the last three years.
Does Breathitt Health & Rehabilitation accept Medicaid?
It is certified to take Medicaid (CMS lists it as "Medicare and Medicaid"). Certification does not mean a Medicaid bed is open: ask the admissions office.
Who owns Breathitt Health & Rehabilitation?
CMS lists 1 owner or manager. Legal business name: Legal Business Name Not Available.

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