Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center is a small facility in Appomattox, Virginia. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B-, which is a solid grade. Based on our assessment, this place has some redeeming qualities. One of the best aspects of this facility's profile is its exemplary inspection score, which is addressed in the next section.
Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with an A. This is a notably better score than the place's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Another strength of this nursing home is its elite grade in long-term care. We awarded it one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of A-. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 70.65868 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly lower than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
We awarded this nursing home just a D for our short-term care rating. This is not one of our better scores. Short-term care grades are often used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation To have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. We found that this facility was subpar in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the staffing figures we looked at. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 5.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.
Nurse Quality
Switching gears to our fourth category, this facility really didn't perform very well. Due to a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is this nursing home's weakest category grade. Our nursing grade considers several subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This facility offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center, 8.72% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care limits the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center, 3.64% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Falls resulting in injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center, 2.55% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely the result of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this statistic could also be misleading for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center, 13.56% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center, 20.28% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center, 3.63% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who are showing symptoms of depression. Increased rates of depression could indicate worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center, 91.12% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center, 16.48% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and continence. Some would argue this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center, 21.22% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term care patients that maintained mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is vital to residents' physical and mental well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center, 1.29 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is key to the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center, 21.22 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center, 11.62 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Appomattox Health and Rehabilitaton Center, 75.54% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living often correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Centra Health, IncAcute Care Hospitals 19.34 miles away1901 Tate Springs Road Lynchburg Virginia 24501Voluntary non-profit - Private(434) 200-4789
Nearby Dialysis
- Uva - Appomattox Dialysis1.62 miles away7787 Richmond Highway Appomattox Virginia 24522Dialysis Stations: 17 (434) 290-5013
- Uva Amherst Dialysis19.78 miles away143 Ambriar Plaza Amherst Virginia 24521CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 26 (434) 946-0089
- Uva Lynchburg Dialysis19.82 miles away103 Clifton St Lynchburg Virginia 24501CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 46 (434) 455-7100