Brian Center Health & Rehab/Hendersonville
1870 Pisgah Drive, Hendersonville NC 28791 · (828) 693-9796 · 67.41% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Brian Center Health & Rehab/Hendersonville is an average-sized nursing home located in Hendersonville, North Carolina. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A grade in this range requires some solid marks. You can certainly do worse than this place. The best part of this nursing home's report card is its exemplary inspection rating. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
We want to point out that this nursing home really outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in this area with an A. Our inspection grades are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's second best category ended up being short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This place performed respectably in this metric with 46.7 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this facility an impressive grade of D. When determining our nursing ratings, we look at both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This place provided a meager 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is well below average. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this metric.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we analyzed was long-term care. It received a lowly F for this category, which is an abysmal grade. This is clearly a significant disappointment. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were concerned by the fact that this facility vaccinated just 89.274445 percent of its patients against pneumonia. The last datapoint we looked at is its hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 1.72 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is a higher hospitalization rate than the average nursing home, but it is not quite as bad as we expected.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Brian Center Health & Rehab/Hendersonville Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients that were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better