Ridgeview Terrace of Life Care
PO Box 26 Coffey Lane, Rutledge TN 37861 · (865) 828-5295 · 79.39% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Ridgeview Terrace of Life Care is a nursing home located in Rutledge, Tennessee, which has 8,340 people. Featuring an overall rating of B, this is a good facility. This facility definitely has plenty of good features. This nursing home's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 132 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home also received top notch government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home really excelled in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Only a select group of facilities performed better in this area. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 96.543205 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a life or death ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not take any chances. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.17 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a significantly better hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This place provides only 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a somewhat concerning figure which is well below average. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the next area, we awarded this nursing home a D for our short-term care category. This is the facility's least impressive category score. Unfortunately, this score pulled down the facility's overall grade a bit. With our short-term care category, we strive to create a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 37.6 percent of its residents returning home. This was well below the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Ridgeview Terrace of Life Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are often linked to poor nursing care. More supervision can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used to treat several medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression could indicate worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percent of long-term stay residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many in the industry believe that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better