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Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In

Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In's website

1645 Florence Rd,
Savannah TN 38372

(731) 926-4200

77.99% estimated occupancy ¹

Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In is an average-sized nursing home in Savannah, Tennessee. With an overall score of A-, this nursing home is among the better nursing homes we assessed. Not surprisingly, this is actually the top facility in Savannah. The best part of this nursing home's impressive report card is its inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
Has Family Council
For profit - Partnership
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy

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Facility Inspections

One of the reasons this place ended up being a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is just about as good as it gets in this very important category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

This facility also was dominant in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of A. Only a select group of facilities performed better in this area. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

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Nurse Quality

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving residents at least once a day.

Short-term Care Quality

The last area we rated is short-term care. In this category, we awarded this facility a decent grade of C. This actually ended up being this facility's worst area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is more often than not a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. It doesn't look like this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 5.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In, 8.8% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of long-term stay patients who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In, 3.44% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric gauges the percentage of long-term care residents that have sustained a fall resulting in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining our nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In, 3.08% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections could be linked to poor hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In, 15.67% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In, 29.51% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In, 9.05% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In, 89.05% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term care patients who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient safety.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In, 16.44% Percentage of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In, 24.2% Percentage of Residents

This tells you the percentage of patients that maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In, 1.27 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In, 24.2 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In, 11.03 Percentage of Patients

This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Savannah Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, In, 73.13% Percentage of Resident

This metric measures the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue that this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation services.