Capstone Rehabilitation and Healthcare
1850 Crestview Road, Easley SC 29642 · (864) 859-3236 · 94.83% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in Easley, South Carolina, Capstone Rehabilitation and Healthcare is one of four available nursing homes in the city. It looks like this is a quality facility. We gave this it an overall grade of B+, which is very good score. Remarkably, the nursing homes in Easley received high grades across the board, making this one of the better places in South Carolina to find a nursing home. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong profile is its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 60 Beds
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For profit - Individual
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to this facility's list of accomplishments, it also was awarded a top-shelf long-term care score. We awarded them an impressive strong of A in this category. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 97.86096 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a deadly condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.68 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the third area, this facility also earned a score of B for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this area. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It was respectable in this area with 45.1 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
The last category we scored ended up being this nursing home's poorest category. However, even in its weakest link we still awarded it an acceptable grade of B- in nursing. Our nursing grade consists of a handful of data points, however, the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This nursing home was relatively weak in some of the areas we look at, with subpar scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are often good indicators of the quality of nursing care available.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Capstone Rehabilitation and Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who suffer from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents that have sustained a fall which caused major injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from UTI's. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility. Many in the industry argue that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home 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. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better