Alamance Health Care Center

Unfortunately, we gave this facility some really poor grades. Among them were its F for its nursing grade. We looked at the qualifications of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses were with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is slightly below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

Among this nursing home's alarming grades was an F for its inspection score. Generally, this means we found some major red flags on its government inspection reports. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection rating. We suggest you scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This facility was hit with 7 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

Our next area we assessed is short-term care, in which this nursing home was given an F. With our short-term care rating, we try to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Given its score in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The last category we analyzed was long-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is a poor score. Facilities that do not fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility administered the vaccine to only 45.82441 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.