With an address in Burlington, North Carolina, Alamance Health Care Center is one of only three available facilities in this city. With an overall score of F, we consider this to be a lower end facility. Keep in mind that Burlington received a city grade of B-, so should look at other options in the city as well. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was nursing, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Alamance Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
Note: Alamance Health Care Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
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.
Facility Inspections
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.
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Short-term Care Quality
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.
Long-term Care Quality
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.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Alamance Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Alamance Health Care Center, 10% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in the same position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Alamance Health Care Center, 3.84% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that experienced a fall which caused serious injury. We use this statistic in calculating nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Alamance Health Care Center, 3.14% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections could be associated with inadequate hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Alamance Health Care Center, 12.15% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used to treat several conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Alamance Health Care Center, 21.12% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents given antianxiety medications. These medications are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Alamance Health Care Center, 3.84% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who are showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Alamance Health Care Center, 88.29% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Alamance Health Care Center, 19.92% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate erosion of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Alamance Health Care Center, 21.81% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Alamance Health Care Center, 1.47 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Alamance Health Care Center, 21.81 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Alamance Health Care Center, 12.78 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Alamance Health Care Center, 73.13% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Alamance Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.13 miles away1240 Huffman Mill Rd Burlington North Carolina 27216Voluntary non-profit - Private(336) 538-7000
Nearby Dialysis
- North Burlington Dialysis0.43 miles away2019 North Church Street Burlington North Carolina 27217CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (336) 227-3450
- Alamance County Dialysis3.03 miles away829 S Main St Graham North Carolina 27253Dialysis Stations: 10 (336) 229-9169
- Davita Glen Raven Dialysis3.72 miles away2210 W. Webb Ave Burlington North Carolina 27217Dialysis Stations: 27 (336) 538-9820
- Burlington Regional Dialysis4.25 miles away873 Heather Road Burlington North Carolina 27215CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (336) 570-3494
- Bma of Burlington Inc6 miles away3325 Garden Road Burlington North Carolina 27215CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 45 (336) 524-8989
- Carolina Dialysis of Mebane7.22 miles away1410 South 3rd Street Mebane North Carolina 27302CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (919) 563-2924
- Davita Mebane Dialysis7.52 miles away616 N First Street Mebane North Carolina 27302Dialysis Stations: 10 (919) 463-4500
- Fmc of East Greensboro17.63 miles away3839 Burlington Road Greensboro North Carolina 27405CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 39 (336) 358-1233