Located in Hickory, North Carolina, Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont is one of four available nursing homes in this city. We gave this facility an overall grade of D. A grade in this range generally suggests a few red flags. Hickory received a city grade of B-, so there are other options in the city worth looking at. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next section.
Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont
- 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 Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Pain Management
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While we didn't give this facility a good overall grade, we did give it a relatively strong grade in the category of inspections, where it received a B. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with a bunch of severe deficiencies flagged. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
We also awarded this facility a grade of B- for our nursing rating. Our nursing grade is primarily based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below the national average. Lastly, nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.
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Short-term Care Quality
We awarded this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care rating. This is not a score to write home about. Short-term care scores are vital for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing services. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we rated is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 87.68116 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont, 10.09% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that are suffering from pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are an indicator of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont, 3.86% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients who have had a fall resulting in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont, 3.21% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Additional nurse staffing minimizes the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this statistic is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont, 11.74% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for several conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont, 22.05% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients given antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally used to treat patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont, 3.01% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont, 87.89% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these vaccines important for resident well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont, 18.87% Percentage of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and bathing. Some experts argue that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont, 24.57% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont, 1.39 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont, 24.57 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont, 11.81 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Brian Center Health & Rehab Hickory Viewmont, 72.58% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some argue this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Hickory, NC
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Hickory, North Carolina has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Frye Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.94 miles away420 N Center St Hickory North Carolina 28601Proprietary(828) 322-6070
- Catawba Valley Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.03 miles away810 Fairgrove Church Rd Hickory North Carolina 28602Voluntary non-profit - Other(828) 326-3809
- Caldwell Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 15.38 miles away321 Mulberry St Sw Lenoir North Carolina 28645Voluntary non-profit - Other(828) 757-5100
- Carolinas Healthcare System-Blue RidgeAcute Care Hospitals 17.86 miles away2201 S Sterling St Morganton North Carolina 28655Proprietary(828) 580-5000
- Atrium Health LincolnAcute Care Hospitals 19.62 miles away433 Mcalister Rd Lincolnton North Carolina 28092Government - Hospital District or Authority(980) 212-2000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc Dialysis Services of Hickory2.45 miles away1899 Tate Blvd Ste 1103 Hickory North Carolina 28602CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 35 (828) 324-9580
- Bio-Medical Applications of North Carolina, Inc.2.45 miles away1899 Tate Blvd Se Suite 2102 Hickory North Carolina 28602Dialysis Stations: 5 (828) 304-0018
- Davita Catawba County Dialysis2.51 miles away1900 3rd Avenue Lane Se Hickory North Carolina 28602Dialysis Stations: 10 (828) 304-0102
- Fresenius Medical Services of Catawba Valley7.04 miles away301 10th Street Nw Suite C 101 Conover North Carolina 28613CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (828) 464-3830
- Bio-Medical Applications of North Carolina, Inc.8.21 miles away3802 Startown Rd Newton North Carolina 28658Dialysis Stations: 15 (828) 465-2006
- Fresenius Medical Care of Alexander County13.5 miles away175 Commerce Drive Taylorsville North Carolina 28681Dialysis Stations: 13 (828) 632-3547
- Bma of Lenoir Inc15.35 miles away322 Mulberry Street Sw Lenoir North Carolina 28645CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 34 (828) 754-5322