Christian Care Center of Bristol
2830 Highway 394, Blountville TN 37617 · (423) 274-6191 · 95% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Christian Care Center of Bristol is a nursing home in Blountville, Tennessee, which has 14,251 people. It looks like this is a very good nursing home. We gave this it an overall grade of B+, which is very good rating. This facility truly has plenty working in its favor. The best part of this facility's strong profile was its inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Individual
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Adding to its profile, this nursing home also earned a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to create a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. This facility performed much better in the final datapoint we looked at in this category, which was the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. This place fared as well as just about any facility in Tennessee in this area with 69.9 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our stronger scores in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 95.942024 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not leave this to chance. The last datapoint we assessed was its hospitalization rate. While it had 2.21 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was middle of the road due to it having some more complicated patients.
Nurse Quality
The next category we scored was nursing, which turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is certainly somewhat disappointing. There are many factors included in this grade. Most of these criteria reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This place provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. Unfortunately, this nursing home also didn't fare as well as we had hoped in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed for this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Christian Care Center of Bristol Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a fall leading to serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents which had a UTI. UTI's could be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of long-term patients that were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many believe that this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better