Central Continuing Care

Central Continuing Care is one of only three available facilities in Mount Airy, North Carolina. It looks like this is a great facility. We awarded this it an overall grade of B+, which is very good grade. Based on all of the relevant data, you can do much worse than this place. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next section.

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility performed well in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we gave it a score of A- for that area, which is one of our most impressive scores. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.16667 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.92 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this place was close to average in this area.

The third category we assessed is short-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B- in this area. Short-term care grades are meaningful for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 43.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The next category we rated was nursing. We gave this nursing home a decent grade in that area, with a grade of C. While this was not as high as some of its other grades, it is nevertheless not a poor grade. Nursing ratings are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This place was relatively weak in two of the metrics we look at, with subpar scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are usually good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.