Life Care Center of Hickory Woods

Life Care Center of Hickory Woods is located in Antioch, Tennessee, a city with a population of 78,406 people. This nursing home is a grade A facility, which is a dominant grade. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the United States. Headlining this nursing home's stellar report card is its inspection score, which you can find in the next section.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this place an A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To add to its top-shelf accomplishments in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A for our long-term care rating. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After looking at the very impressive nursing care provided by this nursing home, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.560974 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is much higher than most nursing homes. The last datapoint we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 2.42 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This facility also was given a high-end short-term care score. In fact, this turned out to be this nursing home's third most impressive category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A. With our short-term care grade, we strive to craft a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This nursing home excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it provided more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than a typical nursing home. This is generally a great sign. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation with 70.1 percent of its patients returning home.

The next area we looked at is this nursing home's poorest area. However, even in its weakest link we still gave it a decent grade of B- in our nursing category. The nursing rating considers a variety of data points. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This facility provides an impressive 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is one of the higher totals in Tennessee. Finally, we also factored some quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. Specifically, we looked at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.