Bledsoe County Nursing Home

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its best category. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing grade weighs quite a few components, but the primary one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home is also strong in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of B+. It performed more favorably than most facilities in this area. Short-term care ratings are crucial for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility received a very good government inspection report this year as well. For this reason, it earned one of our higher scores in that category with a B. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Turning to the fourth area, this facility was awarded an acceptable long-term care rating. While this is not nearly as impressive as some of its other grades, this is really not the end of the world. Long-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 99.375 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.