Nashville Nursing and Rehab

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far better than its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A+. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This facility was awarded its second highest category grade in the area of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a B- in this area, which is a decent grade. In crafting our long-term care scores, we analyze the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We discovered that this nursing home administered the vaccine to just 90.11628 percent of its patients, which is slightly concerning. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Next we wanted to quickly point out one of this facility's major weaknesses. In the area of nursing care, we gave this nursing home a lowly grade of F. Nursing scores are largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home did not perform well. With an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is its worst grade. Short-term care ratings are critical for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With its grade in this area, we were not stunned to learn that this place is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.