Vanco Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
813 S Dickerson Rd, Goodlettsville TN 37072 · (615) 859-6600 · 90.11% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Vanco Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is located in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. With an overall score of B+, this looks like a very good nursing home. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this facility. This facility also received consistently good ratings in all of the major categories. More information about these categories is available below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 90 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
This nursing home received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave it an A- in this area. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.
Short-term Care Quality
Contributing to this facility's list of strengths, it also was given a fine short-term care score. We gave them a dominant grade of A- in this category. In our short-term care grade, we try to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, we found that this nursing home provided respectable levels of physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in this area with 49.4 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Nursing grades are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients suffering falls which lead to major injury, this place performed as well as any facility in Tennessee.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a high-end long-term care grade. This nursing home did not turn out to have any weak areas. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.17355 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the elderly population. The last datapoint we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 2.48 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Vanco Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents who have experienced a fall leading to serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indicator of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used to treat a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some argue that this is a measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and bathing.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is key to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better