Blount Memorial Trans Care Center

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home earned near flawless inspections recently. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home was awarded high marks in the category of short-term care as well. As a result, it received one of our most dominant scores in that category with a area of A. Short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. There are a host of datapoints included in this area. Many of these datapoints reflect staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving patients even once per day.

This facility's weakest category is long-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. In this category, we awarded this facility a grade of D. We would like to to point out this potential weak spot, but you shouldn't over-emphasize a single bad category either. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 44.18605 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.