Gallatin Health Care Center
438 North Water Ave, Gallatin TN 37066 · (615) 452-2322 · 88.3% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Gallatin Health Care Center is one of a mere three available facilities in Gallatin, Tennessee. Featuring an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a very poor nursing home. Based on our ratings, this facility is not a good fit for anyone. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 207 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
Although we gave this facility a terrible overall score, we gave it a C for short-term care. In computing our short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. We were pleased to find that this facility employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. This can't be said for all facilities. Finally, we considered the number of patients who returned home from this facility. This place fared better than most nursing homes in the nation with 54.4 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
This facility's second best category was inspections. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. Inspection scores weigh many items on the facility's inspection reports. When you see too many deficiencies on the reports, this is generally a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by CMS had the potential to create actual harm to residents. Finally, this facility also received 5 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Our next category we looked at is long-term care, where this nursing home was given an F. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We discovered that this nursing home provided the vaccine to only 82.41206 percent of its residents, which is somewhat concerning. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.66 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.
Nurse Quality
The next area we rated is nursing. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category, which is an abysmal score. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular place provided a meager 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is quite a bit below the national average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Gallatin Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by remaining in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often caused by facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this statistic is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This gauges the percentage of long-term care residents which are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. High levels of depression could imply worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term care patients that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts believe that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better