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Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

  • Nursing Home

Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: B-plus
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Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center's website

213 Herndon Drive,
Bells TN 38006

(731) 663-2335

69.25% estimated occupancy 1

Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is located in Bells, Tennessee, a city with a population of 5,207 people. With an overall score of B+, this facility should work for most prospective residents. In our view, this nursing home looks like a solid choice for most people. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Individual
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Tracheotomy Care
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

In addition to receiving a strong overall rating, this facility earned an A+ inspection grade. This score is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can offer a nursing home. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

This facility truly excelled in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A-. Very few nursing homes performed better in this category. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 94.53376 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. When determining a facility's nursing score, we weigh the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving patients more often.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: D

This nursing home's weakest area is short-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. In this category, we awarded this facility a grade of D. We would like to to draw your attention to this possible weak link, however, you should not dwell on a single bad category either. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. We found that this place was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: D

In Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 8.88% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable measure of a facility's nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-plus

In Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 3.29% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls are often caused by lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 3.08% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often caused by lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric could also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: D

In Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 15.67% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Tragically, in limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: F

In Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 29.74% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 9.14% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who are showing depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression could be a sign lower quality care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-minus

In Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 88.31% of Patients

This is the percent of patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: F

In Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 17.11% Percentage of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of deterioration of a resident's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 20.35% Percentage of Residents

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: C

In Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 1.4 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 20.35 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-minus

In Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 11.68 Percentage of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: C

In Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 74.44% Percentage of Resident

Measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Jackson-Madison County General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.57 miles away620 Skyline Drive Jackson Tennessee 38301Government - Hospital District or Authority(731) 541-5000

Nearby Dialysis

  • Dci Humboldt10.45 miles away2749 N Central Ave Humboldt Tennessee 38343Dialysis Stations: 17 (731) 784-4384
  • Humboldt Dialysis10.88 miles away2214 Osborne Humboldt Tennessee 38343CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (731) 824-2742
  • Brownsville Dialysis13.61 miles away380 North Dupree Street Brownsville Tennessee 38012Dialysis Stations: 21 (731) 772-3735
  • Dci Brownsville13.64 miles away378 N. Dupree St. Brownsville Tennessee 38012Dialysis Stations: 16 (731) 772-2151
  • Dci Jackson14.21 miles away93 Ridgecrest Rd Jackson Tennessee 38305CMS Rating: 1 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (731) 668-0800
  • North Jackson Dialysis16.25 miles away217 Sterling Farms Dr Jackson Tennessee 38305CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 26 (731) 664-7444
  • Total Renal Care, Inc.16.31 miles away210 Grace Cv Medina Tennessee 38355Dialysis Stations: 12 (731) 783-0527
  • Davita South Jackson18.06 miles away46 Harts Bridge Road Jackson Tennessee 38301CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (731) 422-9568