NHC Healthcare of Chattanooga Skilled Nursing

Family issues hit close to home. Thankfully, NHC is never far away.

NHC provides services to 76 long-term health care centers with 9,772 beds. NHC’s affiliates also operate 32 homecare programs, seven independent living centers and 23 assisted living communities. NHC’s other services include Alzheimer’s units, long-term care pharmacies, hospice, a rehabilitation services company, and providing management and accounting services to third parties. In order to understand in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of NHC, the investor must review our most recent Form 10-Q quarterly report, Form 10-K annual report and press releases which are available here on our web site. NHC is traded with the symbol NHC on the NYSE Alternext-US Exchange.

National HealthCare Corporation is recognized nationwide as an innovator in the delivery of quality long-term care. Our goal is to provide a full range of extended care services, designed to maximize the well being and independence of patients of all ages. We are dedicated to meeting patient needs through an interdisciplinary approach combining compassionate care with cost-effective health care services.

The National HealthCare Corporation environment is one of encouragement and challenge … innovation and improvement … teamwork and collaboration … and honesty and integrity. All NHC employees are committed as partners, not only to the health of our patients but to the well being of the communities we serve.

Our Mission

At NHC, care is our business. Care that respects the individual. Care that promotes recovery, well being and independence. Care that seeks to meet all standards of quality.

Skilled Care refers to extended inpatient hospital-type care requiring the expertise of licensed medical personnel or therapist on a daily basis.

Sub-acute care is a very high level of care provided by NHC that offers a step-down unit for patients who have been in intensive care. Patients severely injured in automobile accidents, with spinal cord injuries, or with other trauma injuries benefit from NHC’s intensively caring and highly skilled approach to treatment. The sub-acute care at NHC includes specialized care such as rehabilitation and pain management. The environment at NHC is more like home and much less stressful than at other healthcare facilities. This is beneficial to both patients and their families.

Planning and careful coordination of rehabilitative therapies can begin at NHC early in the patient’s care. The healing and rehabilitative process is improved by the teamwork and interaction among NHC’s skilled nursing staff and multi-disciplined therapists.

The staff manages patients under a doctor’s care in these specialized areas:

Wound Management
Pain Management
Case Management
IV Therapy
Restorative Nursing
Diabetic Management
Respite Care
The nursing staff takes a multi-disciplined approach to care planning. The emphasis is on setting the stage for rehabilitative therapy through maintaining the patient’s health and motivating the patient.

The significance of the nursing staff goes far beyond the broad range of skills, technical expertise, and specialized training they bring to NHC. The loving, caring atmosphere that they create is the heart of the healing process.

Our team works closely with each patient’s physician to formulate a personalized plan to enhance the rehabilitative process and improve the patient’s physical, mental and emotional health. Whether provided for several weeks or several months, our skilled health care services are designed to complement a hospital stay or in many cases be a substitute for one.