Transitional Rehabilitation Clapp's of Asheboro

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that category, with an A. This is a much better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category usually have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category grades came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B+. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next area we analyzed is short-term care, where this facility received a C in this area. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 5.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

The next category we assessed was nursing. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D for the area of nursing, making this its least impressive category. When determining a facility's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses are with residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This facility offered just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.