Nhc Healthcare, Lewisburg

Nhc Healthcare, Lewisburg is an average-sized nursing home located in Lewisburg, Tennessee. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is a high-end rating. Based on the data we reviewed, you can not go wrong with this place. If you scroll down, you can see this facility's category ratings, which are also strong.

On top of being a great nursing home overall, it also received A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections are virtually perfect. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given a favorable long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this area. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Even though we determined this nursing home has a favorable volume of nursing hours provided by nurses and other nursing staff, we found its vaccine statistics to be somewhat lower than we expected. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 84.88372 percent of its residents. This is one statistic we'd like to see this nursing home improve on. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility received a strong short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that area with a grade of B+. In computing these short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. It fared better than most facilities in this area with 50.1 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

Switching gears to our final category, this facility received a very strong nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in this category, completing one of our finer report cards. Our nursing category assesses quite a few components, most of which are tied to nursing hours. With 4 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this nursing home surpassed the national average. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is generally a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.