Aspire Health & Rehab of Advance

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

One of this nursing home's more respectable category scores came in the category of short-term care. This wound up being its second most favorable category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. Our short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The key is determining what bearing this had on quality of care. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. Our nursing grade assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

The final category we assessed is long-term care, which was this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care may not provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes offer. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated only 60.784313 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.