Berrien Nursing Center is an average-sized nursing home in Nashville, Georgia. This facility was awarded an overall grade of B+, which is very good score. You can definitely do much worse than this facility. We were also pleased to find that this facility didn't have any bad scores in any of the major categories. More information about these categories is available below.
Berrien Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility really excelled in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of A. Very few facilities performed more favorably in this category. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.93617 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's third most favorable category is short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. Our short-term care scores are arguably more important for residents in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 5.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to the fourth category, this nursing home was awarded a decent nursing rating. Even though this was not nearly as impressive as a few of its other grades, this is truly not a poor grade. Our nursing score assesses several data points, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. While this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this subcategory. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a resident even once per day.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Berrien Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Berrien Nursing Center, 10.37% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term care residents who have pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Berrien Nursing Center, 3.17% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls leading to injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Berrien Nursing Center, 3.19% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had UTI's. UTI's could be a sign of lower quality nursing care. However, this metric can also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Berrien Nursing Center, 18.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for many conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Sadly, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Berrien Nursing Center, 21.34% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Berrien Nursing Center, 5.28% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Berrien Nursing Center, 93.36% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Berrien Nursing Center, 16.65% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Berrien Nursing Center, 20.73% Percentage of Residents
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term care patients who maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Berrien Nursing Center, 1.6 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to the physical health of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Berrien Nursing Center, 20.73 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Berrien Nursing Center, 11.5 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Berrien Nursing Center, 69.89% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Sgmc Berrien CampusAcute Care Hospitals 0.1 miles away1221 E Mcpherson Avenue Nashville Georgia 31639Government - Hospital District or Authority(229) 543-7100
- Southwell Medical, a Campus of TrmcAcute Care Hospitals 13.02 miles away260 Mj Taylor Road Adel Georgia 31620Proprietary(229) 896-8077
- Sgmc Lanier CampusCritical Access Hospitals 14.07 miles away116 West Thigpen Avenue Lakeland Georgia 31635Government - Hospital District or Authority(229) 482-8402
Nearby Dialysis
- Us Renal Care Adel Dialysis12.09 miles away701 North Hutchinson Ave Adel Georgia 31620CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (229) 896-4529