Laurelwood Health Care Center

Laurelwood Health Care Center sits at 200 Birch St. in Jackson, Tennessee, and serves about 52 residents each day, with 64 certified beds, providing assisted living, nursing home, and memory care services for seniors. It offers both short-term rehab and long-term skilled nursing, and you'll find 24-hour nurse coverage, an emergency call system, a CNA training program, and personalized care plans for every resident, with special attention to wound care, pressure ulcer care, and medication needs, even though the facility's inspection history points to several care deficiencies, especially around quality of life, nutrition, and infection control, totaling 23 documented inspection deficiencies. The nurse turnover rate is 54%, and nurse staffing adds up to about 3.52 hours per resident each day. The building has private and semi-private rooms, quad rooms, private suites with single beds and wall-mounted TVs, and offers features like a locked community, controlled building access, a courtyard, handicap access, housekeeping, and washers and dryers. Laurelwood provides a dining room with meals, adapted diets, and festive decorations, and the property has amenities like a game room, salon/barber shop, wifi, cable TV, guest parking, kitchens, a fitness center, maintenance, salon services, and iPads. Social activities include a Life Enrichment Program, arts and crafts, specialized dementia activities, holiday events, and a Doctor Prescribed Happy Hour, with both health and wellness and educational programs too. Medical support includes podiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, wound care, and subacute care, with personal care for bathing, grooming, laundry, dressing, and walking or wheelchair help, plus transportation and laundry service. While the facility's inspection records show problems with infection control and proper dietary care, Laurelwood does work to keep policies in place to prevent infections, and provides memory care, psychiatric services, and a respite program, seeking to support caregivers and families. The center's ownership is through Mfi Healthcare Tn Llc, and it's managed by Ahava Healthcare. Laurelwood Health Care Center holds a 4.1 rating from 20 online reviews, and participates in the Tennessee Health Care Association.