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NHC Healthcare, Springfield provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation services to Tennessee residents who need medical care and recovery support. Our Springfield team focuses on helping patients regain independence through personalized therapy and attentive nursing.
Capacity
107 residents
Location
Springfield, TN
Status
Listed in a public registry
608 8TH AVE EAST, Springfield, Tennessee 37172
From CMS Care Compare, the federal record every Medicare-certified nursing home is held to. Data as of September 1, 2026. Check it on Medicare.gov
At its most recent standard inspection, on December 3, 2025, state inspectors cited 7 health deficiencies (the Tennessee average is 4.4).
Nurses and nurse aides spend 3 hours 30 minutes with each resident a day, below the Tennessee average of 3 hours 48 minutes.
Medicare fined NHC Healthcare, Springfield once in the last three years, $79,346 in total.
| Measure | This home |
|---|---|
| Nurse and aide time per resident, per day | 3 hours 30 minutesBelow the Tennessee average |
| Registered nurse time per resident, per day | 34 minutesBelow the Tennessee average |
| Nursing staff who left in the past year | 55%Above the Tennessee average |
14 health citations in the last three years. Each one is a federal standard inspectors found the home was not meeting.
December 3, 2025 · Standard inspection · 3 citations
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
September 15, 2025 · Complaint investigation · 4 citations
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse.
Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention.
Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.
Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
1 fine totaling $79,346 in the last three years.
608 8TH AVE EASTSpringfield, TN 37172
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State inspectors visited on December 3, 2025 and cited 7 health deficiencies, 4 of them from complaint investigations. The Tennessee average is 4.4.
Nurses and aides spend 3 hours 30 minutes with each resident per day, including 34 minutes from registered nurses. 55% of nursing staff left over the past year.
Yes. Medicare fined NHC Healthcare, Springfield once in the last three years, totaling $79,346.
Medicare covers up to 100 days of skilled nursing per benefit period after a qualifying 3-day hospital stay — fully for the first 20 days, then with a daily copay. Long-term custodial stays are generally not covered.
A semi-private room averages about $7,900 per month nationally; private rooms cost more. Medicaid is the largest payer for long-term nursing home care.
Medicare rates nursing homes 1 to 5 stars on its Care Compare site. We don't repeat those stars here. Each nursing home page shows Medicare's underlying record instead: inspections, staffing and fines, with a link to check it on Medicare.gov.