Briarwood Community Living Center

Briarwood Community Living Center is a nursing home located in Lexington, Tennessee. This city has a population of 17,603 people. Sporting an overall grade of C, this is a decent facility. This facility has some things working in its favor. This nursing home didn't excel in all of our categories, but it did not receive any terrible grades either. More information about these categories can be found below.

The main reason this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this facility a grade of A-. We weighed the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also performed favorably in the area of long-term care, with an elite score of A- in this category. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 97.12231 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.6 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

We awarded this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care rating. This is not a score to write home about. With our short-term care category, we try to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. It appears that this nursing home was subpar in many staffing metrics we focus on. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 34.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics doomed this facility's short-term care score.

This nursing home did not receive a favorable inspection score. We gave it a score of just D in this category. Inspection scores relate to a nursing home's government inspection reports. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. We suggest you scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This facility was assessed one category J or K deficiency, which rank among the worst deficiencies. These categories mean that the government inspectors found a deficiency which places patient health or safety in imminent danger. Lastly, this place was assessed significant government fines in the past few years.