Life Care Center of Rhea County

On top of earning a great overall score, this nursing home fared even better in our inspections category which is based on the facility's recent government inspection reports. We gave it an A for that area, which is one of our best grades. Our inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this nursing home's other achievements is its high-end long-term care score. It received one of our more impressive grades in that area, with a grade of A-. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.630135 percent of its patients, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we gave them one of our better grades in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. Short-term care grades are commonly used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. We weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The final area we analyzed was nursing, which was a weak link for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of D in nursing, leaving this as its worst area. We'd nevertheless suggest that you consider all of a nursing home's grades. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Unfortunately, this place also did not fare as well as we hoped in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed in this category.