Abbotts Creek Center

Abbotts Creek Center is a facility located in Lexington, North Carolina, a city with 76,998 people. We gave this facility an overall grade of B. A score of this caliber requires solid marks in most areas. We found this nursing home to be better than most of the nursing homes in Lexington, which has a city grade of B-. This facility is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. Few facilities fared better in that area. Our inspection ratings are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

We also gave this nursing home a score of A- for our short-term care score. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in the nation with 65.7 percent of its residents returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this statistic.

The third best area we awarded this facility in any area came in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. For residents looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Switching gears to the next category, this facility was given a respectable nursing grade of C. In determining our nursing grades, we weigh both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This place provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider some quality-focused metrics. We especially like to look at the percentage of patients who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.