Azalea Health and Rehab

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this facility an A for nursing. There are numerous subcategories within this area. Many of these subcategories reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to its dominant accomplishments in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A for its short-term care grade. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility received a very good government inspection report this year as well. For this reason, it earned one of our better scores in that category with a B. Our inspection ratings are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

The last area we assessed was this facility's poorest area. Nevertheless, even its worst category would be a strength for most nursing homes. In fact, we awarded it a favorable grade of B in our long-term care category. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 47.49035 percent of its residents, which is a bit less than we expected. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.