Concordia Nursing and Rehabilitation-Smith County

Concordia Nursing and Rehabilitation-Smith County is a large facility located in Carthage, Tennessee. This is a lower end nursing home, with an overall grade of D. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Carthage. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its impressive inspection score. You can scroll down to learn more about inspections and other category scores

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it an A+ for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Our inspection ratings are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We also gave this nursing home a decent grade in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. In our short-term care assessment, we try to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. The hope is that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This facility performed better in this statistic. It performed better than most nursing homes in this metric with 52.9 percent of its residents returning home.

We were surprised to find that this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing. In fact, we gave it an D for that category, which is one of our highest grades. When determining a facility's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses are with patients as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This place offered just 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is well below average. To pair with its below average totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility had really bad marks in several of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining falls which led to major injury. This facility was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.

The last category we rated was long-term care, where this facility received a rock bottom score in this area also. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area, which is definitely a major disappointment. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 63.754044 percent of its residents. This is many points below the national average. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.92 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.