Clarksville Nursing Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest grades in that area with a grade of A. Our inspection scores are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility also received a positive score in our long-term care category. We gave this nursing home a better than average grade of B in that category. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After we finished assessing the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a deadly condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing grade. We gave this nursing home an D. Our nursing score consists of quite a few datapoints, however, the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we assessed is short-term care, was this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this area. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. With its grade in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this place was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.