Signature Healthcare of Erin is a nursing home in Erin, Tennessee. This city has a population of 5,153 people. This is a highly rated facility, with an overall grade of B+. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this nursing home. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong report card was its inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph
Signature Healthcare of Erin
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared as well in this area. Our inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.
Long-term Care Quality
Adding to its profile, this nursing home also received a score of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 97.34042 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning to another strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our more favorable grades in our short-term care category as well, with a B. Short-term care grades are critical for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. It does not look like this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Nurse Quality
The next category we looked at is nursing, in which we gave it a strong grade of B. This facility really didn't have any weak areas. Our nursing score considers a number of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Signature Healthcare of Erin Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Signature Healthcare of Erin, 8.8% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Signature Healthcare of Erin, 3.44% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who have suffered falls resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Signature Healthcare of Erin, 3.08% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic could be skewed for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Signature Healthcare of Erin, 15.67% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Signature Healthcare of Erin, 29.51% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Signature Healthcare of Erin, 9.05% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Some believe that this is a measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Signature Healthcare of Erin, 89.05% of Patients
This is the percent of residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Signature Healthcare of Erin, 16.44% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Signature Healthcare of Erin, 24.2% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percent of patients who were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Signature Healthcare of Erin, 1.27 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is important to the physical health of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Signature Healthcare of Erin, 24.2 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Signature Healthcare of Erin, 11.03 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Signature Healthcare of Erin, 73.13% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Houston County Community HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 1.27 miles away5001 East Main Street Erin Tennessee 37061Government - Local(931) 289-4211
- Three Rivers HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 17.03 miles away451 Highway 13 South Waverly Tennessee 37185Voluntary non-profit - Private(931) 296-4203
Nearby Dialysis
- Dialysis Clinic, Inc. - Waverly16.74 miles away505 West Main Street Waverly Tennessee 37185Dialysis Stations: 17 (931) 296-4667