Azalea Health & Rehab Center is in Wilmington, North Carolina. The city offers several available nursing homes. This nursing home received an overall grade of B, which is favorable rating. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Wilmington. This nursing home's impressive profile was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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Azalea Health & Rehab Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition to earning a strong overall score, this nursing home performed well in short-term care. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspections. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.
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Nurse Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. The nursing grade analyzes a handful of factors, however, the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 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 typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we rated is long-term care, which turned out to be this facility's worst category. We awarded this facility a D in that area. Of course, this score hurt the facility's overall profile to some degree. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. One of the data points we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.60465 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Azalea Health & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Azalea Health & Rehab Center, 4.02% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a great measure of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Azalea Health & Rehab Center, 4.65% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents that sustained a fall resulting in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Azalea Health & Rehab Center, 2.34% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. More frequent bathing minimizes the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this statistic is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Azalea Health & Rehab Center, 11.39% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who are administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents with dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Azalea Health & Rehab Center, 18.75% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Azalea Health & Rehab Center, 0% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some experts believe that this is a reliable measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Azalea Health & Rehab Center, 97.61% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Azalea Health & Rehab Center, 13.37% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Azalea Health & Rehab Center, 13.15% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Azalea Health & Rehab Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Azalea Health & Rehab Center, 13.15% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Azalea Health & Rehab Center, 10.43% of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Azalea Health & Rehab Center, 64.65% of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Wilmington, NC
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
Looking for more options? Wilmington, North Carolina has 10 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- New Hanover Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2 miles away2131 S 17th St Box 9000 Wilmington North Carolina 28402Government - Local(910) 343-7000
- J Arthur Dosher Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 18.27 miles away924 Howe St Southport North Carolina 28461Voluntary non-profit - Other(910) 457-3800
Nearby Dialysis
- Total Renal Care of North Carolina, LLC0.71 miles away3147 S 17th Street Wilmington North Carolina 28412Dialysis Stations: 12 (910) 395-4856
- Se Dialysis Wilmington Davita Facility1.85 miles away2215 Yaupon Drive Wilmington North Carolina 28401CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 34 (910) 343-0664
- Total Renal Care of North Carolina, LLC8.67 miles away1220 Magnolia Village Way Leland North Carolina 28451Dialysis Stations: 10 (910) 371-0391
- Cape Fear Dialysis9.48 miles away3005 Enterprise Drive Wilmington North Carolina 28405CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (910) 796-8684
- Southport Dialysis Center18.92 miles away1513 N Howe St Ste # 15 Southport North Carolina 28461Dialysis Stations: 13 (910) 454-0272