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AHC Bethesda

  • Nursing Home

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: F
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AHC Bethesda's website

444 One Eleven Place,
Cookeville TN 38501

(931) 525-6655

60.24% estimated occupancy 1

AHC Bethesda is an average-sized nursing home located in Cookeville, Tennessee. Featuring an overall score of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel facility. If you are not satisfied with this facility's low overall grade, you may find you have slim pickings in Cookeville. The city has just two other nursing homes. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: B-minus

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: D

This nursing home's next best score was short-term care, but it nevertheless earned a grade of just D in that category. This ended up being a well below average score. In computing our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is more often than not a meaningful measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

Unfortunately, this facility's third highest category is long-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still performed somewhat poorly. For residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinates 95.79832 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

Nurse Quality

Grade: F

The next category we scored is nursing, in which this nursing home was given an abysmal score in this area as well. We gave it a lowly F in this category, which is definitely a major concern. In determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we assess the amount of time nurses are with patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these metrics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Jul 22

AHC Bethesda Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: F

In AHC Bethesda, 9.06% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term residents who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are an measure of a facility's nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In AHC Bethesda, 3.4% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of patients who sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In AHC Bethesda, 3.28% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. However, this statistic can be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-minus

In AHC Bethesda, 15.49% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for many medical conditions, such as dementia. Unfortunately, in limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: D

In AHC Bethesda, 29.7% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A-minus

In AHC Bethesda, 8.67% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients exhibiting signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-minus

In AHC Bethesda, 89.63% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In AHC Bethesda, 16.71% Percentage of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and bathing.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In AHC Bethesda, 26.22% Percentage of Residents

This indicates the percent of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B

In AHC Bethesda, 1.21 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In AHC Bethesda, 26.22 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-plus

In AHC Bethesda, 11.37 Percentage of Patients

Measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A-minus

In AHC Bethesda, 72.9% Percentage of Resident

Measures the percent of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Ten Broeck TennesseePsychiatric 2.37 miles away1 Medical Center Blvd 5 West Cookeville Tennessee 38501Proprietary(931) 783-2075
  • Cookeville Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.37 miles away1 Medical Center Boulevard Cookeville Tennessee 38501Government - Local(931) 783-2000
  • Saint Thomas Highlands HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.15 miles away401 Sewell Dr Sparta Tennessee 38583Proprietary(931) 738-9211
  • Livingston Regional HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.04 miles away315 Oak St Box 550 Livingston Tennessee 38570Proprietary(931) 823-5611

Nearby Dialysis

  • Cookeville Dialysis2.49 miles away320 N. Willow Ave Cookeville Tennessee 38501CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (931) 520-7763
  • Total Renal Care, Inc3.23 miles away1843 Foreman Drive Suite B Cookeville Tennessee 38501Dialysis Stations: 12 (931) 372-8853
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  • Davita Sparta15.43 miles away150 Sam Walton Dr Suite 800 Sparta Tennessee 38583Dialysis Stations: 8 (931) 739-3550
  • Livingston Tn Dialysis18.06 miles away308 Oak Street Livingston Tennessee 38570Dialysis Stations: 8 (931) 403-5255

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=445427