Claiborne County Senior Care

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 91.51292 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat lower than we anticipated but still a respectable figure. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. 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.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. In calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the number of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 0.5 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to the final area, this facility was awarded a respectable short-term care score. Although this wasn't as dominant as some of its other scores, this is still nothing to be ashamed of. In determining these short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.