Clarksville Nursing Center

On top of being a great facility overall, it also received A+ inspections in recent years. Its inspections are virtually perfect. Inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This first-rate facility also dominated in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of A+. Only a small group of facilities performed better in this area. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 98.88889 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. We weighed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the number of hours the nurses spent with residents, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we graded was short-term care. In this area, we awarded this facility an acceptable grade of B-. This turned out to be this facility's worst area. Our short-term care scores are thought to be most meaningful for people in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.