Altercare of Alliance Center for Rehab & Nc

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection ratings are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. It does not look like we were able to find deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a positive score in long-term care. This nursing home earned a B+ in this area, which is one of our higher scores. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 53.097347 percent of its residents against pneumonia. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's third most favorable category ended up being its short-term care score, where it received a C. Short-term care grades are crucial for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home and discovered this was this facility's strongest datapoint within this area. This place performed well in this area with 60.2 percent of its residents returning home.

The final category we analyzed was nursing, which proved to be this nursing home's worst category. We gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is obviously very disappointing. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This place averaged a meager 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this metric.