Accordius Health at Asheville

Nursing Home
Memory Care

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Accordius Health at Asheville's website

500 Beaverdam Road,
Asheville NC 28804

(828) 254-8833

75.58% estimated occupancy ¹

Accordius Health at Asheville turns out to be one of many available nursing homes at your disposal in Asheville, North Carolina. With a bottom of the barrel overall grade of F, this facility didn't fare well in our assessment. In our view, you would be better off to steer clear of this facility. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was short-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Hospice
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Transportation
Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy

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Short-term Care Quality

Even though this place's overall score was abysmal, it didn't perform terribly in the category of short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is a decent score. However, this wasn't enough to save its overall profile. In forming our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. The final item we considered in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

Facility Inspections

As it turns out, its government inspection reports were not the source of this nursing home's bottom of the barrel overall grade. It received a grade of C in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were in categories G through L. This means that this facility avoided the more significant categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

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Long-term Care Quality

We gave this facility just a D for our long-term care grade. This is well below average in this category. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 96.61836 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

Nurse Quality

This facility's weakest category was nursing, which is the last category we analyzed. In this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D. Our nursing grade assesses a handful of components, however, the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Accordius Health at Asheville Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Accordius Health at Asheville, 10.09% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often caused by residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Accordius Health at Asheville, 3.86% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls which result in injury are often the result of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Accordius Health at Asheville, 3.21% of Patients had UTIs

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who experienced a urinary tract infection. While more infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it is problematic to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having differing reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Accordius Health at Asheville, 11.74% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to patients for many conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Accordius Health at Asheville, 22.05% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Accordius Health at Asheville, 3.01% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are showing symptoms of depression. Many in the industry believe that this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Accordius Health at Asheville, 87.89% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Accordius Health at Asheville, 18.87% Percentage of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Accordius Health at Asheville, 24.57% Percentage of Residents

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who remained mobile levels. Some experts argue that the ability to move around is critical to patients health.

Hospitalizations

In Accordius Health at Asheville, 1.39 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Accordius Health at Asheville, 24.57 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Accordius Health at Asheville, 11.81 Percentage of Patients

This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Accordius Health at Asheville, 72.58% Percentage of Resident

This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements.

Scores for Asheville, NC

Overall Rating has a grade of B
Nurse Rating has a grade of B
Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus

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Nearby Hospitals

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Nearby Dialysis

Asheville Kidney Center Inc2.96 miles away1600 Centrepark Dr Asheville North Carolina 28805CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 52 (828) 251-1224
Weaverville Dialysis3.61 miles away329 Merrimon Avenue Weaverville North Carolina 28787Dialysis Stations: 20 (828) 658-1143
Total Renal Care of North Carolina, LLC4.38 miles away10 Mcdowell Street Suite 110 Asheville North Carolina 28801Dialysis Stations: 10 (828) 255-2839