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Life Care Center of East Ridge

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A-minus
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1502 Mcdonald Road,
Chattanooga TN 37412

(423) 894-1254

65.74% estimated occupancy 1

Life Care Center of East Ridge is one of six nursing homes located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. This facility received an overall rating of A-. Indeed, this is actually one of the top three nursing homes in the city. Based on our ratings, you can not go wrong with this place. This nursing home's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which we will address in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • No Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy

Awards

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Top Nursing Home in Tennessee Awards 2019

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Top Nursing Home in Tennessee Awards 2020

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Top Nursing Home in Tennessee Awards 2021

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. This is really what you like to see in this important metric.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

This facility was given superb marks in the area of short-term care. For this reason, it was given one of our best scores in that category with a grade of A+. In the area of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A-minus

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

The final category we rated is long-term care, in which this facility received a B-. Even though this wound up being its poorest category score, this is still not a terrible score. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's personal care instead of the skilled nursing and healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated just 89.28571 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Life Care Center of East Ridge Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: F

In Life Care Center of East Ridge, 30.77% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients that developed new or worsened pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In Life Care Center of East Ridge, 3.57% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In Life Care Center of East Ridge, 3.85% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely the result of worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B

In Life Care Center of East Ridge, 14.29% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many patients, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: D

In Life Care Center of East Ridge, 31.82% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of long-term stay patients receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Life Care Center of East Ridge, 8% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients demonstrating signs of depression. Higher rates of depression may indicate a less hospitable environment.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In Life Care Center of East Ridge, 79.26% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: F

In Life Care Center of East Ridge, 33.33% of Patients

This is the percent of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Life Care Center of East Ridge, 12.71% of Patients

This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-minus

In Life Care Center of East Ridge, 75.69% of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term patients that saw functional improvements.

Scores for Chattanooga, TN

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A

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Nearby Dialysis

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