Soddy-Daisy Health Care Center

Soddy-Daisy Health Care Center is a large nursing home located in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee. Featuring an overall score of B, this looks like a good option. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this facility. The best part of this facility's impressive profile is its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another strong feature for this nursing home is that it was given an impressive long-term care grade. In fact, this proved to be its second best category score. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a B+. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of really impressive nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination record was superb as well. In fact, it vaccinated 99.63899 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.76 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home was given an impressive short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our better grades in that category with a grade of B. With our short-term care rating, we attempt to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who returned to the community from this nursing home. We found that it performed decently in this area, with 48.6 percent of its residents able to return home.

The next area we analyzed is nursing. We gave it a C in that area. This is a decent grade in this area. The nursing rating includes a host of subcategories. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This facility provided 4.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure. Lastly, we also baked a few quality measures into our nursing scores. This place fared poorly in two of the areas we considered, with below average figures for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are generally accurate indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.