Laurelbrook Nursing Home
Medicare’s overall rating for this home. The inspection part of it is graded on a curve against other Tennessee homes, so a star here does not mean what it means in another state.
Staffing
Where the benchmark comes from
Staffing is the measure most closely linked to how residents do, and the one families almost never see. How much nursing care a resident needs depends on how sick they are, so we compare this home against the level its own residents are expected to need. The marker on the first two bars shows that level. It is a research benchmark, not a legal limit. The hours shown are the hours the home filed with Medicare, before any adjustment for how sick its residents are.
What inspectors found
Inspectors visit every nursing home and write up what they find. This home has 19 findings on record going back to 2019, 7 of them after someone filed a complaint. Of the 19, 10 are from the last three years.
The 5 serious findings here
No check after health change
The home did not do a full new check of a resident’s health after their condition changed a lot.
The home fixed this on March 17, 2022.
Medicare’s wording
Federal tag F637Assess the resident when there is a significant change in condition
Late care plan
The home did not write or update a resident’s care plan on time, using the right staff.
The home fixed this on March 17, 2022.
Medicare’s wording
Federal tag F657Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Nutrition
A resident did not get enough food or fluids to stay healthy.
The home fixed this on March 17, 2022.
Medicare’s wording
Federal tag F692Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Registered nurse coverage requirement not met
The home did not have a registered nurse on duty for 8 consecutive hours a day, 7 days a week, or did not have a full-time director of nursing.
The home fixed this on March 17, 2022.
Medicare’s wording
Federal tag F727Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis.
No quality checks
The home did not run the required program for finding and fixing its own problems.
The home fixed this on March 17, 2022.
Medicare’s wording
Federal tag F867Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action.
Everything on record
276 of the 303 nursing homes in Tennessee have fewer findings of harm or immediate jeopardy on record than this one.
What these levels mean
JImmediate jeopardy The most serious finding there is. Medicare’s words: noncompliance that has caused, or is likely to cause, serious injury, harm, impairment, or death. About 2 in every 100 findings nationally.
GActual harm A resident was really hurt, not just put at risk. About 3 in every 100 findings.
The letter is Medicare’s own code for how many residents were involved. Immediate jeopardy covers J, K and L. Actual harm covers G, H and I. The later the letter, the more residents were affected.
The plain-English line under each finding describes the rule the inspector cited. It is not an account of what happened. Medicare’s own wording of the rule is printed with it, and the full inspection report is the record of the incident.
What you can do
Numbers only go so far. These are two things most families do not know they can do.
Ask for today’s staffing sheet
Every nursing home must post how many nurses are working each shift, keep 18 months of it, and show it to you on request. Ask for today’s, then last Saturday’s. Weekends are when staffing thins out.
Call the ombudsman before you decide
Every state has a free, confidential long-term care ombudsman. You can ask how many complaints a specific home has had and what they were about. You can find your state’s office through its department of aging.
Where this comes from
Inspection findings, staffing hours, fines and star ratings on this page are published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a federal agency, and are current as of August 1, 2026. We reload after each monthly release, and the footer of every page shows both the release date and the date we loaded it. The federal ID for this home is 445535.
What these numbers do not say
The level of care residents here are expected to need, and the gap, are not Medicare figures. We work them out from this home’s own Medicare case-mix score using the published CASE formula (Harrington and others, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2025). It is a research benchmark, not a legal limit.
Inspection findings are recorded by state inspectors on behalf of Medicare. Staffing hours come from payroll records the home files with Medicare, and Medicare audits a sample of them. Star ratings partly reflect quality measures the home reports about itself, which is why we show inspections and staffing separately rather than only the star.