Broad Creek Care Center is a senior living facility located in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, which has a total of 39,852 people. This proved to be an A+ rated facility, which is the most impressive score that we offer. We really couldn't find many bad things to say about this nursing home. Its ratings are impeccable. If you look further down this page, you can see this place's category ratings, which look to be just as strong as its overall score.
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Broad Creek Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition to being a first-rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an A+. Few facilities fared better in this area. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Facility Inspections
Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. It does not appear that we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Nurse Quality
To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to our next category, this nursing home was given an excellent long-term care grade. We gave it a grade of A in this category, rounding out a straight A profile. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.333336 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Broad Creek Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Broad Creek Care Center, 11.11% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term residents which suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Broad Creek Care Center, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care. Additional nurse staffing can reduce the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Broad Creek Care Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Broad Creek Care Center, 21.67% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Broad Creek Care Center, 42.55% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Broad Creek Care Center, 12.28% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Broad Creek Care Center, 97.92% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Broad Creek Care Center, 2.27% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and continence. Some experts would argue that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Broad Creek Care Center, 11.99% of Residents
This is the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Broad Creek Care Center, 11.99% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Broad Creek Care Center, 19.51% of Patients
Measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Broad Creek Care Center, 97.15% of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's typically correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Scores for Hilton Head Island, SC
- Overall Rating has a grade of A-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of A
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-plus
Looking for more options? Hilton Head Island, South Carolina has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Hilton Head Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.85 miles away25 Hospital Center Blvd Hilton Head Island South Carolina 29925Proprietary(843) 681-6122
- Beaufort County Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.65 miles away955 Ribaut Rd Beaufort South Carolina 29902Government - Local(843) 522-5200
- Coastal Carolina HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.82 miles away1000 Medical Center Drive Hardeeville South Carolina 29927Proprietary(843) 784-8182
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc Hilton Head Dialysis Center4.95 miles away25 Hospital Center Blvd Medical Pavilion Suite 108 Hilton Head Island South Carolina 29926Dialysis Stations: 16 (843) 681-5840
- Shoals Dialysis, LLC12.58 miles away101 Okatie Center Blvd S Okatie South Carolina 29909Dialysis Stations: 12 (843) 706-9900
- Dci Port Royal14.41 miles away8 Presnell Circle Beaufort South Carolina 29902CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (843) 521-4300
- Bma of Beaufort Inc Low Country Dialysis15.06 miles awayTwo Professional Drive 10 Johnny Morrall Circle Port Royal South Carolina 29935Dialysis Stations: 22 (843) 524-2373
- Bayshore Dialysis LLC19.66 miles away540 E Oglethorpe Ave Savannah Georgia 31401Dialysis Stations: 16 (912) 236-3053