NHC HealthCare Johnson City

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also received a dominant short-term care score. This actually is this nursing home's second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A-. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 5.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home also was given a top-shelf long-term care grade. This actually is this nursing home's third most impressive category score. In that category, this facility received a score of A-. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.56897 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a dangerous condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we analyzed was nursing, in which this facility was awarded a B. Believe it or not, this is this nursing home's least impressive area. A facility could be doing a lot worse when their lowest grade still is better than most other facilities. Our nursing score weighs many components, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a resident at least once a day.