Life Care Center of Collegedale
PO Box 658, 9210 Apison Pike, Collegedale TN 37315 · (423) 396-2182 · 91.69% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Life Care Center of Collegedale is a large facility located in Collegedale, Tennessee. With an overall grade of C, this is likely a middle of the road facility. You can definitely do worse than this nursing home. The best part of this facility's profile was its stellar inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 124 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
We want to point out that this facility outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best grades in that category with an A+. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it does not look like we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Without the deficiency related data for this facility, it ended up being difficult to really grade it in this category.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's short-term care grade ended up being one of its best grades. The facility was given a B- in this area. Short-term care grades are typically used to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. It performed respectably in this area with 45.6 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in determining our grade in this category. This nursing home provides only 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat alarming figure as it is well below average. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Although this nursing home didn't have as many nursing hours per resident as many other nursing homes we looked at, it was still better than average in the area of avoiding major falls. This is often a reliable indicator of how carefully a nursing home's nursing staff is tending to its patients. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's weakest category is long-term care, which is the final category we assessed. We gave it a lowly F in this category. Despite several acceptable grades in other areas, this grade is still alarming so we felt obligated to point it out. For residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 98.89807 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.66 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Life Care Center of Collegedale Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term patients which have pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of long-term care residents which have suffered a fall which caused serious injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . UTI's are often the result of poor nursing care. However, this metric could be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to patients for many medical conditions, such as dementia. Unfortunately, in some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents who are given antianxiety medication. These drugs are commonly given to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of residents who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you 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 metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of independence with ADL's typically correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better