Alleghany Center

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Alleghany Center's website

179 Combs Street,
Sparta NC 28675

(336) 372-2441

81.44% estimated occupancy ¹

Alleghany Center is a nursing home in Sparta, North Carolina, which has a population of 6,621 people. With an overall grade of D, this is a well below average nursing home. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Sparta. The best thing we can say about this nursing home is that it did not receive any F's in in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Hospice
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Speech Therapy
Amputee Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Dentistry
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Podiatry
Mental Health
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
X-Ray
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Bariatric Care
Optometry
Colostomy Care
Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

Although this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it did receive a very good grade in the area of inspections. We awarded it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better grades. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid facilities that had a long list of deficiencies. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Nurse Quality

We also awarded this facility a grade of C for our nursing rating. Nursing scores are mostly tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

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Short-term Care Quality

This nursing home's second worse score is short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that category. This is a relatively poor grade. Our short-term care grades are likely more critical for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. With its poor score in this area, we were not surprised to discover that this facility provided significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics doomed this facility's short-term care score.

Long-term Care Quality

The last category we looked at is long-term care, ended up being this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this facility a D in that area. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 73.66412 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Alleghany Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Alleghany Center, 10.09% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Alleghany Center, 3.86% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are often the result of poor nursing care. Additional nurse staffing can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Alleghany Center, 3.21% of Patients had UTIs

This is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be a sign of poor nursing care. However, this metric can be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Alleghany Center, 11.74% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Alleghany Center, 22.05% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Alleghany Center, 3.01% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients who are demonstrating signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Alleghany Center, 87.89% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term care residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Alleghany Center, 18.87% Percentage of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Alleghany Center, 24.57% Percentage of Residents

Measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that mobility is vital to residents' mental and physical well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Alleghany Center, 1.39 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of long-term care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Alleghany Center, 24.57 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Alleghany Center, 11.81 Percentage of Patients

This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Alleghany Center, 72.58% Percentage of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

Twin County Regional HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 16.18 miles away200 Hospital Drive Galax Virginia 24333Proprietary(276) 236-8181
Ashe Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.53 miles away200 Hospital Ave Jefferson North Carolina 28640Voluntary non-profit - Private(336) 246-7101