Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized hospital-based facility located in La Follette, Tennessee. Featuring an overall score of A-, this is clearly a very good nursing home. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top third of all facilities in the United States. Scroll down to find this facility's category ratings, which are also impressive. It is hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.
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Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
On top of earning a great overall score, this nursing home also received an excellent nursing rating, with an A. Nursing scores are largely associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A-. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.
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Short-term Care Quality
The third area we graded is short-term care. This nursing home was awarded a very positive short-term care grade, with a grade of B+ in this category. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we assessed proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. However, even its lowest point would be a highlight for most nursing homes. We awarded it an above average grade of B in long-term care. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.335075 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center, 6.94% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center, 1.57% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who sustained a fall leading to major injury. We use this statistic in computing nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0.54% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections could be linked to poor hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center, 22.58% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center, 47.09% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center, 4.47% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients showing signs of depression. Increased levels of depression may be a sign a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center, 95.67% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center, 20.73% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of deterioration of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center, 35.83% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center, 35.83% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center, 15.11% of Patients
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Lafollette Health and Rehabilitation Center, 64.48% of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Tennova Healthcare-Lafollett Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.18 miles away923 East Central Avenue La Follette Tennessee 37766Voluntary non-profit - Church(423) 907-1200
- Jellico Medical Center, IncAcute Care Hospitals 12.7 miles away188 Hospital Lane Jellico Tennessee 37762Voluntary non-profit - Private(423) 784-7252
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc Lafollette0.78 miles away305 River Drive La Follette Tennessee 37766CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 15 (423) 562-2084
- Dialysis Clinic Inc8.51 miles away173 Patty Hill Rd Caryville Tennessee 37714Dialysis Stations: 15 (423) 566-1487
- Bio-Medical Applications of Tennessee, Inc.8.85 miles away148 Lake Ln Caryville Tennessee 37714Dialysis Stations: 19 (423) 566-6947
- Clinch River Dialysis19.37 miles away702 North Main Street Clinton Tennessee 37716Dialysis Stations: 17 (865) 457-1114