Accordius Health at Salisbury
635 Statesville Boulevard, Salisbury NC 28144 · (704) 633-7390 · 67.67% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Accordius Health at Salisbury is a facility located in Salisbury, North Carolina, which has a population of 77,045 people. Featuring an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel facility. Salisbury received a city grade of B-, so there are some other options in the city worth looking at. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is inspections, which is addressed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 185 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of F. When computing our nursing scores, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home wound up receiving a bottom of the barrel grade in our long-term care category. It was given a lowly F in this area. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We found that this nursing home vaccinated only 66.866264 percent of its patients, which is slightly concerning. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.22 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.
Short-term Care Quality
The last category we scored is short-term care. This facility was given a rock bottom grade of F in that category. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is typically a solid measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. As you might expect, we discovered that this facility offers significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 18.2 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Accordius Health at Salisbury Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term care residents which sustained falls leading to major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing scores.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Some experts argue this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better