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.
AHC Bethesda
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
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
Facility Inspections
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
This nursing home also didn't grade out terribly in the area of short-term care. In fact, we gave it a grade of C for that category, which wound up being another one of its more favorable scores. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is often a meaningful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. We were surprised to find that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. The facility supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final metric 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 5.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.
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Long-term Care Quality
Surprisingly, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our long-term care rating, which is not a bad grade. Our long-term care scores are more meaningful for residents in need of more traditional services related to personal care. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 96.666664 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is more than most nursing homes. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Nurse Quality
The next category we assessed was nursing, in which this nursing home was given a rock bottom score in this area also. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area, which is obviously a major concern. Our nursing score includes a host of data points. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
AHC Bethesda Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In AHC Bethesda, 8.8% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In AHC Bethesda, 3.44% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a fall resulting in major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In AHC Bethesda, 3.08% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often caused by worse hygiene protocols. More frequent bathing minimizes the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this statistic is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In AHC Bethesda, 15.67% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In AHC Bethesda, 29.51% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term care patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In AHC Bethesda, 9.05% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In AHC Bethesda, 89.05% of Patients
This is the percent of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In AHC Bethesda, 16.44% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and eating. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In AHC Bethesda, 24.2% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percent of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In AHC Bethesda, 1.27 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In AHC Bethesda, 24.2 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In AHC Bethesda, 11.03 Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In AHC Bethesda, 73.13% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living often correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
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
- Davita Foreman Drive Home Training3.56 miles away1843 Foreman Dr Ste 201 Cookeville Tennessee 38501Dialysis Stations: 3 (931) 372-2706
- 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