Alleghany Center

Although we gave this nursing home a terrible overall grade, we gave it a B- for our nursing category. Our nursing score is based on a handful of components, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. 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 typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.

We were also surprised to find that this nursing home received a somewhat respectable short-term care score this year. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. Short-term care grades are generally employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The real question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

The third category we looked at is long-term care, where this nursing home was given an F. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated only 67.25979 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.

In our final category of inspections, this nursing home received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. When a place has this bad of an inspection grade, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This nursing home had 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a threat to resident safety or health. 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.