Benchmark Healthcare of Puryear is located in Puryear, Tennessee, a city with 2,751 people. This turns out to be a middle of the road facility, with an overall grade of B-. You could definitely do worse than this nursing home. The best part of this place's profile is its remarkable inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Benchmark Healthcare of Puryear
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
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Facility Inspections
We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in this area with an A. Our inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was awarded a strong long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in that area, which is one of our better. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After we finished assessing the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 86.111115 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. We analyzed the levels of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with residents, in determining our grade in this category. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a low total compared with most other nursing homes. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it scored well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the final area, we gave this nursing home a D in the area of short-term care. This is the facility's least impressive category grade. Of course, this score pulled down the nursing home's overall grade a bit. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to craft a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics sunk this facility's short-term care grade.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Benchmark Healthcare of Puryear Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Benchmark Healthcare of Puryear, 8.88% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Benchmark Healthcare of Puryear, 3.29% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric indicates the percent of long-term residents who suffered a fall which resulted in major injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Benchmark Healthcare of Puryear, 3.08% of Patients had UTIs
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients who suffered from a UTI. While more infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare different nursing homes due to facilities having reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Benchmark Healthcare of Puryear, 15.67% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for many conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Unfortunately, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Benchmark Healthcare of Puryear, 29.74% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Benchmark Healthcare of Puryear, 9.14% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents who are showing signs of depression. Some believe this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Benchmark Healthcare of Puryear, 88.31% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Benchmark Healthcare of Puryear, 17.11% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Benchmark Healthcare of Puryear, 20.35% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Benchmark Healthcare of Puryear, 1.4 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Benchmark Healthcare of Puryear, 20.35 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Nearby Hospitals
- Henry County Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.12 miles away301 Tyson Av Paris Tennessee 38242Government - Hospital District or Authority(731) 642-1220
- Murray-Calloway County HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.66 miles away803 Poplar Street Murray Kentucky 42071Voluntary non-profit - Other(270) 762-1100
Nearby Dialysis
- Dci Paris10.3 miles away1101 Kelley Dr Paris Tennessee 38242CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (731) 644-0763
- Fresenius Medical Care Sandy River, LLC10.41 miles away57 Commerce St Paris Tennessee 38242Dialysis Stations: 17 (731) 642-7998
- Fmc - Dialysis of Murray10.94 miles away609 South 12th Street Murray Kentucky 42071Dialysis Stations: 13 (270) 759-3080