Graceland Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center

Graceland Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center is a very-large nursing home in Memphis, Tennessee. Featuring an overall grade of D, this is a relatively poor nursing home. We ranked this as one of the bottom three facilities in Memphis. With countless other nursing homes in the city, you should be able to do better. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its strong inspection reports. You can continue reading 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 nursing home's overall score. Our inspection grades weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with a bunch of severe deficiencies flagged. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility's second highest area ended up being long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a C. In the category of long-term care, we analyze the amount of care provided by a nursing home, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were disappointed to learn that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 69.65742 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.69 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provided just 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is an alarmingly low total. In addition to receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this place was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic dragged down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.

Turning to the fourth area, this nursing home did not perform well here either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 30.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.