Claiborne County Senior Care

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 92.936806 percent of its patients. This is a bit less than we expected but still a decent percentage. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's inspections. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. While this wasn't its finest category score, this isn't a bad score either. 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 nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, nursing ratings also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its residents.

The last category we analyzed is short-term care, in which this facility was awarded a grade of B-. This proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. This is still not a major area of concern. In computing our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This category is often a useful measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.