About Us
Etowah Health Care Center has been a member of the Etowah community for 40 years and continues to provide a pleasant, home-like environment where nursing care and supportive services are delivered by a professional, caring, and friendly staff. We offer compassionate personal skilled nursing care and rehabilitation services to the residents in Etowah and McMinn County. Our facility managers place you and your family at the center of healthcare and hospitality services. Our staff, environmental services. and programs work with a collective purpose and energy so that you can rehabilitate, recharge, and recommit to living your best life.
All the services you need, in one place.
A more enjoyable experience.
We are passionate about our resident’s living environment and services and are proud of the living standards we have set here at Etowah Health Care Center and hope that when it comes time for you to find placement for someone special, you will allow us to help.
COVID-19 INFORMATION
CURRENT FACILITY STATUS:
OUTBREAK
7 DAY POSITIVITY RATE:
31%
Our facility follows CDC and CMS guidelines for precautions, testing, and reporting for COVID-19.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a revised memo April 2021, CMS QSO-20-39-NH, with directives concerning nursing home visitation. The CMS guidance provides reasonable ways nursing homes can safely facilitate in-person visitation to address the psychosocial needs of residents.
Visitation can be conducted through different means based on a facility’s structure and residents’ needs, such as in resident rooms, dedicated visitation spaces, outdoors, and circumstances beyond compassionate care situations. Regardless of how visits are conducted, there are certain core principles and best practices that reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission:
Core Principles of COVID-19 Infection Prevention
- Screening of all who enter the facility for signs and symptom of COVID-19 (e.g., temperature checks, questions about and observations of signs or symptoms or those who have had close contact with someone with COVID-19 infection in the prior 14 days (regardless of the visitor’s vaccination status).
- Hand hygiene (use of alcohol-based hand rub is preferred).
- Face covering or mask (covering mouth and nose) and social distancing at least six feet between persons, in accordance with CDC guidance.
- Instructional signage throughout the facility and proper visitor education on COVID-19 signs and symptoms, infection control precautions, other applicable facility practices (e.g., use of face covering or mask, specified entries, exits and routes to designated areas, hand hygiene).
- Cleaning and disinfecting high frequency touched surfaces in the facility often, and designated visitation areas after each visit.
- Appropriate staff use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
- Effective cohorting of residents (e.g., separate areas dedicated to COVID-19 care).
- Resident and staff testing conducted as required.
These core principles are consistent with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance for nursing homes and should be adhered to at all times.
Please understand that visitation policies may have the potential to change daily, based upon state and federal guidelines as well as the positivity rate of our facility and community.
We will assess our status weekly and communicate changes on our site accordingly.
For more information please contact our facility at (423) 263-1138.