Regional One Health Subacute Care

Regional One Health Subacute Care is a very-small hospital-based nursing home in Memphis, Tennessee. This nursing home turns out to be an A+ facility, which is our most impressive score. Even in a city featuring 21 other nursing homes, this nursing home stood out. Scroll down to see this facility's category scores, which also impressed us. You just can't do any better than a straight A report card.

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ short-term care grade. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. This facility excelled at the highest level in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. This is an excellent sign. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Tennessee in this area with 73.2 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home also received an A+ nursing grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. Nursing scores are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 6.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This was one of the highest totals we found. In addition, a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. On top of providing high levels of care, this place also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. It performed as well as any facility in the state in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

This nursing home also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with a grade of A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Switching gears to our last area, this facility also received an A+ long-term care score, making it one of the few of nursing homes to receive all A+'s. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.