Azalea Health & Rehab Center
3800 Independence Boulevard, Wilmington NC 28412 · (910) 392-3110 · 95.5% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Azalea Health & Rehab Center is located in Wilmington, North Carolina. The city has 186,140 people. With an overall grade of C, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. Based on our assessment, there are certainly much worse places out there. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is short-term care, which is addressed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 80 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
We gave this facility one of our better scores in short-term care, where it earned an impressive grade of A. This is notably better than the facility's overall score, which was certainly not elite. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is generally a meaningful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 67.8 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.
Facility Inspections
Inspections is another category where this nursing home excelled. We gave this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing rating. We gave this facility an D. Our nursing rating looks at the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provides 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. On top of performing badly in terms of nursing hours, this nursing home also had terrible scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place was at more than twice the national average in both of these metrics. This is alarming when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This sealed this facility's fate of earning a very poor nursing grade.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we analyzed is long-term care. It received an F in this category, which is a rock bottom score. This is clearly a significant concern. For patients in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility gave the vaccine to 98.67841 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable statistic. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 1.85 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't bad since it had some more complex patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Azalea Health & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to poor nursing care. However, this metric may also be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term residents who are showing symptoms of depression. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of deterioration of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better