Accordius Health at Winston Salem

Accordius Health at Winston Salem is a nursing home in Winston Salem, North Carolina which has 250,944 people. Our grading system was not kind to this nursing home, as it received an overall score of F. If you aren't happy with this facility's overall grade, you should be able to find a better option in Winston Salem. The city has at least 10 other nursing homes. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid places that had a long list of deficiencies. This nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's second highest score is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed somewhat badly. With our short-term care category, we seek to create a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Given its grade in this category, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home provided substantially fewer physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area, with just 40 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. When calculating our nursing grades, we assess both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. In addition to ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in both of these datapoints. This is a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing grade significantly.

The next area we looked at is long-term care. This nursing home was given a poor grade of F in that area. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 87.61062 percent of its patients. This is quite a bit less than the national average. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.