Life Care Center of Sparta
508 Mose Drive, Sparta TN 38583 · (931) 738-9430 · 80.7% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Life Care Center of Sparta is an average-sized facility located in Sparta, Tennessee. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B+, which is very favorable score. Based on our ratings, this place looks like a good fit for most people. This place was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 100 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Partnership
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to faring well overall, this facility earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Therefore, it earned one of our best scores in that area with an A+. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a dominant long-term care grade. Indeed, long-term care turned out to be its second most impressive category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a score of A. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.05213 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. With 1.75 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home was just about middle of the pack in this area.
Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, this facility also received favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we awarded it one of our higher grades in that area, with a score of B. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This area is often a solid assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Tennessee in this area with 57.8 percent of its residents returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Nurse Quality
The final category we rated is nursing, in which this nursing home received a grade of C. While this ended up being its worst category rating, this is nevertheless not a major area of concern. When calculating a facility's nursing score, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also considered some quality-based measures. This place performed well in a few of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented with better nursing care.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Life Care Center of Sparta Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay patients who experienced falls leading to severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often associated with poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint could be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better