The Health Center at Richland Place is an average-sized non-profit nursing home in Nashville, Tennessee. With an overall score of A-, this nursing home is ranked among the more impressive facilities we assessed. We flat out can't say enough great things about this place. We also gave this facility impressive grades in all of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.
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The Health Center at Richland Place
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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Other
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Meal Delivery
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition to being a first-rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in our short-term care rating, where it received an A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home has earned near flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this area. Inspection scores are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspections. Places that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.
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Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. In computing our nursing scores, we assess both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we assessed was long-term care. This facility received a better than average nursing score this year, with a B. While this is not as good as many of its other grades, this remains one of our better grades in this area. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 56.27907 percent of its patients. This is slightly below what we expected. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Health Center at Richland Place Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In The Health Center at Richland Place, 10.33% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great barometer of nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In The Health Center at Richland Place, 7.44% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are often associated with lower quality nursing care. Closer supervision can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In The Health Center at Richland Place, 4.04% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often linked to worse hygiene protocols. Better hygiene protocols minimizes the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In The Health Center at Richland Place, 13.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs are used to treat a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In The Health Center at Richland Place, 22.47% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In The Health Center at Richland Place, 3.03% of Patients
This is the percent of patients exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In The Health Center at Richland Place, 71.94% of Patients
This is the percent of residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In The Health Center at Richland Place, 26.67% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In The Health Center at Richland Place, 22.35% of Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term residents who were able to retain mobility. Many believe that mobility is important for patients mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In The Health Center at Richland Place, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to maintaining the physical health of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In The Health Center at Richland Place, 22.35% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In The Health Center at Richland Place, 6.45% of Patients
This metric tracks 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 The Health Center at Richland Place, 71.86% of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Nashville, TN
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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