Nhc Healthcare, Farragut

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home has received near flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this area. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Adding to this facility's list of achievements, it also was given a very favorable short-term care score. We gave them an elite grade of A in this category. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be more important for folks needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. We looked at the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a relatively low total compared with most facilities. Finally, nursing ratings also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

The final area we analyzed is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a grade of B-. This actually proved to be this facility's worst area. This is nevertheless not a terrible score. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 97.53087 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.