Brian Center Health & Rehabilitation/Statesville

We were not able to award this facility any respectable grades. We especially wanted to point out that it received an F for its nursing grade. When determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we weigh the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Unfortunately, this facility received really poor government inspection reports in recent years, causing us to give them an F in our inspection category. An F in this category is typically a signal that we found some major red flags on its inspection reports. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home was assessed a category J or K deficiency, which rank among the worst deficiencies. This generally means that CMS found a deficiency which places resident health or safety in imminent jeopardy. Lastly, we also would like to point out that this nursing home received significant government fines recently totaling over $100,000. This generally indicates that a nursing home'sbad track record spanned more than one year.

In addition, we gave this nursing home a rock-bottom F in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care grades are likely more important for patients in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. With its grade in this area, we were not stunned to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.6 percent of its residents returning home.

The final area we scored is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel score here also. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is definitely somewhat alarming. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 96.98997 percent of its residents, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.