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Etowah Health Care Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: D
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409 Grady Road, PO Box 957,
Etowah TN 37331

(423) 263-1138

56.83% estimated occupancy 1

Etowah Health Care Center is a facility located in Etowah, Tennessee, which has a population of 7,656 people. This is a well below average nursing home, with an overall grade of D. As far as we can see, we would struggle to recommend this facility. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, we will discuss short-term care in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Individual
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Tracheotomy Care
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

Although we weren't high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B- for short-term care. This grade is more respectable than the place's overall score. With our short-term care score, we endeavor to create a fair measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The more important thing is determining what effect this had on the quality of care. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Facility Inspections

Grade: B-minus

We were also pleasantly surprised to award this facility a relatively favorable inspection rating as well. We gave it a respectable grade of B- in this category, which easily topped its overall score. Our inspection scores are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

This nursing home's next best category was long-term care. We gave it a C in this area. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this area. With our long-term care rating, we look at the sheer quantity of services provided by a facility, along with a few qualitative measures. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 88.74459 percent of its residents. This is quite a bit lower than what we expected. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Nurse Quality

Grade: D

Moving on to the final area, we awarded this facility a D in the area of nursing. This is the facility's weakest category grade. Our nursing rating includes many components, but the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Etowah Health Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: C

In Etowah Health Care Center, 11.56% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are an barometer of quality of care.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: C

In Etowah Health Care Center, 4.76% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . Major falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In Etowah Health Care Center, 3.11% of Patients had UTIs

This gauges the percent of long-term patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: D

In Etowah Health Care Center, 24.62% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: F

In Etowah Health Care Center, 44.29% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents which were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly used to treat patients suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-minus

In Etowah Health Care Center, 5.8% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. Increased rates of depression could reveal worse patient care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-minus

In Etowah Health Care Center, 93.55% of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: D

In Etowah Health Care Center, 21.32% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and using the bathroom.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Etowah Health Care Center, 21.8% of Residents

This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who retained mobility levels. Many in the industry would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' mental and physical well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Etowah Health Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Etowah Health Care Center, 21.8% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: C

In Etowah Health Care Center, 14.76% of Patients

This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-minus

In Etowah Health Care Center, 74.84% of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a measure of rehabilitation performance.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Starr Regional Medical Center AthensAcute Care Hospitals 7.88 miles away1114 W Madison Ave Athens Tennessee 37371Proprietary(423) 745-1411
  • Sweetwater Hospital AssociationAcute Care Hospitals 17.83 miles away304 Wright St Sweetwater Tennessee 37874Voluntary non-profit - Private(865) 213-8200

Nearby Dialysis

  • Total Renal Care, Inc.0.56 miles away109 Grady Rd Etowah Tennessee 37331Dialysis Stations: 16 (423) 263-3666
  • Fmc Athens8.44 miles away943 Decatur Pike Athens Tennessee 37303Dialysis Stations: 7 (423) 507-9712
  • Rocky Top Dialysis17.02 miles away921 New Hwy 68 Sweetwater Tennessee 37874Dialysis Stations: 17 (423) 337-5770
  • Fmc Skyway17.18 miles away783 New Highway 68 Sweetwater Tennessee 37874Dialysis Stations: 17 (423) 337-4534