Christian Health Center is in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The city has a total of 104,282 people. This proved to be a grade A facility, which is a high-end score. You flat out can't do much better than this nursing home. As you will find below, this place also performed just fine in our category grades. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.
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Christian Health Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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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. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
To add to its top-shelf performance in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A for our short-term care rating. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
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Long-term Care Quality
The next category we assessed was long-term care. Adding to its impressive resume, this facility also excelled in this category. In fact, we awarded it a of A- for the area. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. After considering the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 90.51724 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
The fourth category we graded is nursing, where this facility received a grade of B+. This rounded out a first-rate report card. Not many nursing homes received a B+ or better in all four categories. The nursing score consists of quite a few components, but the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Christian Health Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Christian Health Center, 8.33% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is an indication of the percent of long-term patients which have pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Christian Health Center, 7.76% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term patients which sustained a fall which caused major injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Christian Health Center, 2.63% of Patients had UTIs
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term patients who suffered from UTI's. UTI's may be a sign of a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this statistic may be skewed for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Christian Health Center, 14.66% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Christian Health Center, 45.1% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally used to treat patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Christian Health Center, 0% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Christian Health Center, 94.44% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Christian Health Center, 27.72% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Christian Health Center, 21.48% of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term stay residents who retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Christian Health Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is key to maintaining the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Christian Health Center, 21.48% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Christian Health Center, 10.58% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Christian Health Center, 77.21% of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many believe that this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Bowling Green, KY
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Bowling Green, Kentucky has 5 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Tristar Greenview Regional HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.83 miles away1801 Ashley Circle Bowling Green Kentucky 42104Proprietary(270) 793-1000
- The Medical Center at Bowling GreenAcute Care Hospitals 2.58 miles away250 Park Street Bowling Green Kentucky 42101Voluntary non-profit - Private(270) 745-1000
- The Medical Center at ScottsvilleCritical Access Hospitals 18.95 miles away456 Burnley Road Scottsville Kentucky 42164Voluntary non-profit - Private(270) 622-2800
- The Medical Center at FranklinCritical Access Hospitals 19.52 miles away1100 Brookhaven Road Franklin Kentucky 42135Voluntary non-profit - Private(270) 598-4800
Nearby Dialysis
- Bio-Medical Application of Kentucky, Inc.0.88 miles away1834 Lyda Avenue Bowling Green Kentucky 42104Dialysis Stations: 6 (270) 846-4975
- Davita - Dialysis of Warren County1.95 miles away391 Suwannee Trail St. Bowling Green Kentucky 42103CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (270) 746-5805
- Davita Lost River Dialysis2.19 miles away737 Dishman Lane Bowling Green Kentucky 42101Dialysis Stations: 12 (270) 846-1054
- Fmc - Bowling Green Kidney Center2.71 miles away262 Natchez Trace Ave Bowling Green Kentucky 42103CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (270) 842-2154
- Bio-Medical Applications of Kentucky, Inc18.82 miles away1112 S Main Street, Suite 11 Franklin Kentucky 42134Dialysis Stations: 13 (270) 586-3236