Carolina Pines at Asheville is located in Asheville, North Carolina. This city has a total of 120,389 people. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of D, which is a relatively poor grade. If you are not happy with this facility's subpar overall grade, you will be pleased to know there are seven other nursing homes in Asheville. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its strong inspection grade. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category scores
Carolina Pines at Asheville
Updated May 1, 2022 by Sara Levinsohn
91 Victoria Road,
Asheville NC 28801
78.25% estimated occupancy 1
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Facility Inspections
While we were not high on this facility's overall grade, it actually received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A. Inspection scores are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. This nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's second best area turned out to be its long-term care grade, where it received a grade of C. Long-term care grades focus on a facility's personal care rather than the highly skilled therapy and medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. Once we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinates 99.016396 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This place keeps its patients out of the hospital. While it had 2.29 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than most nursing homes due to it having some more complicated patients.
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Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next best category was short-term care. We gave it a C in this category. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this area. With our short-term care rating, we attempt to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it was above average in this metric with 55.3 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
The next area we analyzed is nursing. We gave it an F for this category, which is a poor score. Nursing scores are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This facility averaged a meager 2.6 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this metric.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Carolina Pines at Asheville Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Carolina Pines at Asheville, 10.34% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Carolina Pines at Asheville, 3.97% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Carolina Pines at Asheville, 3.26% of Patients had UTIs
This gauges the percentage of long-term residents that have sustained a UTI. UTI's may be an indicator of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint can also be skewed for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Carolina Pines at Asheville, 11.5% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for many conditions, including cognitive disorders. Unfortunately, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Carolina Pines at Asheville, 22.5% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that are administered antianxiety medication. These medications are typically used to treat patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Carolina Pines at Asheville, 3.06% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who are exhibiting signs of depression. Many argue this is a reliable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Carolina Pines at Asheville, 88.86% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Carolina Pines at Asheville, 19.28% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of deterioration of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Carolina Pines at Asheville, 26.79% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percent of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Carolina Pines at Asheville, 1.3 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is key to the physical health of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Carolina Pines at Asheville, 26.79 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Carolina Pines at Asheville, 11.98 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Carolina Pines at Asheville, 72.58% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Asheville, NC
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Asheville, North Carolina has 7 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Memorial Mission Hospital and Asheville Surgery CeAcute Care Hospitals 0.2 miles away509 Biltmore Ave Asheville North Carolina 28801Voluntary non-profit - Private(828) 213-1111
- Park Ridge HealthAcute Care Hospitals 13.22 miles away100 Hospital Drive Hendersonville North Carolina 28792Voluntary non-profit - Private(828) 684-8501
- Margaret R Pardee Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.24 miles away800 N Justice St Hendersonville North Carolina 28791Government - Local(828) 696-1000
Nearby Dialysis
- Total Renal Care of North Carolina, LLC0.46 miles away10 Mcdowell Street Suite 110 Asheville North Carolina 28801Dialysis Stations: 10 (828) 255-2839
- Asheville Kidney Center Inc2.04 miles away1600 Centrepark Dr Asheville North Carolina 28805CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 52 (828) 251-1224
- Weaverville Dialysis7.05 miles away329 Merrimon Avenue Weaverville North Carolina 28787Dialysis Stations: 20 (828) 658-1143
- Hendersonville Dialysis Center18.11 miles away1250 7th Ave East Hendersonville North Carolina 28792CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (828) 697-1602