Aspire Health & Rehab of Advance

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far better than its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facilities second best area was short-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road grade in this area. Our short-term care scores are critical for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The hope is that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. There are a variety of subcategories included in this category. Many of the criteria are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this area. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a patient more often.

The final category we assessed was long-term care, which is a low point for this nursing home. We awarded this facility a grade of just D in our long-term care category. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 58.24176 percent of its patients. This is pretty significantly below what we expected. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.