AHC Clarksville

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid facilities that have too many severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

One of this nursing home's more respectable category scores came in the category of long-term care. This wound up being its second most favorable category. In that area, we gave this facility a B-. In calculating our long-term care grades, we scrutinize the personal care offered to the nursing home's residents. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated only 69.06907 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to the category of short-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in that category. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. With its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The last area we looked at was nursing. We gave it an F in this category, which is a very poor score. In computing our nursing grades, we assess both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were well below the national average. On top of rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor marks in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these data points. This is a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics helped pull down this facility's nursing rating significantly.