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Briarwood Community Living Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: B-plus
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41 Hospital Drive, PO Box 1067,
Lexington TN 38351

(731) 968-6629

60.54% estimated occupancy 1

Briarwood Community Living Center is a small facility located in Lexington, Tennessee. With an overall grade of B+, this is a high quality nursing home. Based on our assessment, this nursing home looks like a good fit for most people. The best part of this facility's profile was is its long-term care grade. We discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Meal Delivery
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • Amputee Recovery
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • X-Ray
  • Pain Management
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

On top of performing well in its overall score, this facility received even higher grades in the area of long-term care. It received one of our best grades in that category with an A-. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

Additionally, this facility also was given favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we gave them one of our stronger grades in that category, with a score of B+. Short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Facility Inspections

Grade: B

This nursing home earned a B for its inspections score. This is an above average grade in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B

The final area we analyzed is nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home an impressive grade of B. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Briarwood Community Living Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: C

In Briarwood Community Living Center, 9.78% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In Briarwood Community Living Center, 3.79% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients which suffered falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In Briarwood Community Living Center, 3.03% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with inadequate hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: D

In Briarwood Community Living Center, 28.45% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used to treat several medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: F

In Briarwood Community Living Center, 48.76% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Briarwood Community Living Center, 0% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry would argue this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In Briarwood Community Living Center, 97.76% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Briarwood Community Living Center, 17.8% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In Briarwood Community Living Center, 23.56% of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels. Some experts believe that mobility is critical to patients health.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In Briarwood Community Living Center, 23.56% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-plus

In Briarwood Community Living Center, 5.5% of Patients

This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Henderson County Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.16 miles away200 W Church St Lexington Tennessee 38351Proprietary(731) 968-1801
  • Decatur County General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 15.48 miles away969 Tennessee Ave S Parsons Tennessee 38363Government - Local(731) 847-3031

Nearby Dialysis

  • Lexington Dialysis0.94 miles away390 S. Broad Lexington Tennessee 38351Dialysis Stations: 13 (731) 968-0350
  • Dci Beech Lake1.52 miles away870 W Church Street Lexington Tennessee 38351Dialysis Stations: 7 (731) 968-2513