Dickson Health and Rehab is a facility located in Dickson, Tennessee. The city has 27,024 people. This facility received an F, which is just about as bad as it gets in our grading scheme. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Dickson. The city has just one other nursing home. Surprisingly, we were able to give this nursing home some positive feedback for our long-term care category, which you can find more information about below.
Dickson Health and Rehab
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Hemodialysis
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Long-term Care Quality
Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B for our long-term care rating. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 90.39548 percent of its residents. This is a few points lower than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Facility Inspections
We wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its inspection grade. An F in this category is particularly troublesome because it usually points to major red flags on the nursing home's inspection reports. With facilities that received this poor of an inspection rating, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we also would like to point out that this place was assessed significant government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This often signifies that a nursing home'spoor performance spanned several years.
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Short-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care score. Our short-term care grades are probably more important for residents requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. With its weak score in this area, we were not shocked to find this place offers significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.
Nurse Quality
The last area we assessed is nursing. This facility was given a very poor grade of F in that area. When calculating our nursing ratings, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Dickson Health and Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Dickson Health and Rehab, 8.8% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This measures the percent of long-term residents which developed new or worsened pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Dickson Health and Rehab, 3.44% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a fall resulting in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Dickson Health and Rehab, 3.08% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term patients that have sustained urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indicator of poor nursing care. However, this datapoint may also be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Dickson Health and Rehab, 15.67% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to residents for a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders. Sadly, in limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Dickson Health and Rehab, 29.51% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Dickson Health and Rehab, 9.05% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients who are demonstrating signs of depression. Some experts would argue this is a reasonable measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Dickson Health and Rehab, 89.05% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Dickson Health and Rehab, 16.44% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate the deterioration of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Dickson Health and Rehab, 24.2% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who retained mobility levels. Many would argue that mobility is critical to residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Dickson Health and Rehab, 1.27 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Dickson Health and Rehab, 24.2 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Dickson Health and Rehab, 11.03 Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Dickson Health and Rehab, 73.13% Percentage of Resident
This is a measure of the percent of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Tristar Horizon Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.08 miles away111 Highway 70 East Dickson Tennessee 37055Proprietary(615) 446-0446
Nearby Dialysis
- Dci Dickson1.59 miles away254 Beasley Dr. Dickson Tennessee 37055Dialysis Stations: 20 (615) 446-0111
- Dialysis Clinic Inc. (Camp Okawehna)11.63 miles awayRoute 1 Lick Creek Road Lyles Tennessee 37098Dialysis Stations: 8 (615) 327-3061