The Suites at Jordan River is in Collierville, Tennessee. It looks like this nursing home is one of the most elite nursing homes we found. A grade of this caliber requires top-notch marks across the board. Based on our assessment, this place ought to be a great choice for just about anybody. Scroll down to find this nursing home's category scores, which are also strong. It's hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.
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The Suites at Jordan River
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our nursing score is primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place 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 avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Long-term Care Quality
We also wanted to note the fact that this nursing home was awarded a first-rate score of A in our long-term care area. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 34.210526 percent of its residents. This is slightly lower than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we assessed was short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home an above average grade of B. Short-term care grades are generally employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Suites at Jordan River Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In The Suites at Jordan River, 2.7% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term care residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a great barometer of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In The Suites at Jordan River, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term residents that have had falls leading to severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In The Suites at Jordan River, 23.68% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often the result of worse hygiene protocols. Closer supervision minimizes the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In The Suites at Jordan River, 2.86% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In The Suites at Jordan River, 24.24% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In The Suites at Jordan River, 0% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are showing symptoms of depression. Many in the industry would argue that this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In The Suites at Jordan River, 17.11% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In The Suites at Jordan River, 21.21% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of decline of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In The Suites at Jordan River, 17.26% of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In The Suites at Jordan River, 17.26% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In The Suites at Jordan River, 0% of Patients
This tells you 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 The Suites at Jordan River, 74.66% of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living usually correlates with successful rehabilitation services.