Briarwood Community Living Center
41 Hospital Drive, PO Box 1067, Lexington TN 38351 · (731) 968-6629 · 75.45% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
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.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 55 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
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.
Long-term Care Quality
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.
Short-term Care Quality
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.
Facility Inspections
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.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Briarwood Community Living Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many medical conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is key to maintaining the physical health of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better