Covington Care Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

Covington Care Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home in Covington, Tennessee, which has 15,601 people. It looks like this is a very good nursing home. We gave this it an overall grade of B+, which is very good rating. This facility truly has plenty working in its favor. If you look below, you can see this facility's category scores, which are also quite good.

To pair with a strong overall grade, we awarded this place an A+ for our inspection category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Adding to its strong performance in other categories, we awarded this nursing home an B+ for our nursing rating. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we looked at is short-term care. This facility was given an above average short-term care grade, with a B in the category. In our short-term care score, we endeavor to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes with 49.2 percent of its patients returning home. This is a higher rate than most nursing homes.

The next area we analyzed is long-term care. We awarded this facility one of our higher scores in that category, with a grade of B. This facility ended up being relatively strong in all areas we analyzed. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. While it had 2.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was close to the middle of the pack since it had more complex patients.