Carolina Care Health and Rehabilitation
111 Harrilson Street, Cherryville NC 28021 · (704) 435-4161 · 83.55% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Carolina Care Health and Rehabilitation is in Cherryville, North Carolina. The city has a population of 13,612 people. This nursing home received an overall grade of D, which is a well below average score. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Cherryville. The city has just one other nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its strong inspection rating. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category grades
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 107 Beds
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For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we didn't grade this nursing home favorably overall, we did give it an excellent score in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. 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. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category scores was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 45.454544 percent of its residents. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.28 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
Sadly, this nursing home only earned a D for its short-term care score, which is not a score to write home about. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its weak grade in this area, we were not surprised to find that this place provided substantially fewer registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 46.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these relatively poor statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.
Nurse Quality
The last category we looked at was nursing, where this facility was given a rock bottom score in this area also. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is definitely a major concern. The nursing score weighs a host of data points. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place had really poor marks in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents sustaining falls which led to major injury. This nursing home was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Carolina Care Health and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This measures the percentage of long-term residents who have pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are often linked to lower levels of patient supervision. More supervision can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term residents which have experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's could be an indication of poor nursing care. However, this statistic may also be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients which were administered antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients with cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are typically prescribed to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
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.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you 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 percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better