West Tn Transitional Care

To go along with its favorable overall grade, we gave this place a grade of A+ for our inspection category. Our inspection scores are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This high end facility also dominated in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A+. Only a small group of nursing homes fared better in this category. Short-term care scores are meaningful for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our nursing grade considers a variety of datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving a resident at least once a day.

In the final category, this facility also was given a very strong long-term care rating, with a grade of A. This completed a rare straight A report card. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We weren't able to track down this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.