Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

In addition, this facility also was given favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B+. Short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. Our nursing score analyzes several datapoints, however, the main one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is far below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. It scored well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Moving on to the fourth category, this nursing home was given a grade of B- in long-term care, which we consider to be a decent grade. With our long-term care grade, we focus more on the quantity of services provided by a nursing home, as well as a series of qualitative statistics. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 98.85058 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.