Clay County Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Hayesville, North Carolina. This nursing home is a highly rated facility, with an overall grade of B+. You could certainly do much worse than this facility. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Clay County Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Recreational Therapy
- Bariatric Care
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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. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk 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
This facility was awarded a strong long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category with a grade of B+. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 96.8 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a life or death ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Nurse Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Nursing grades are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we assessed is short-term care, in which this facility was given a C. While this wound up being its lowest category score, this is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that just 4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Clay County Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Clay County Care Center, 5.92% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure tells you the percent of long-term care patients that suffer from pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a solid barometer of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Clay County Care Center, 3.2% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a fall which caused serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Clay County Care Center, 0.88% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. Better hygiene protocols can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this statistic is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Clay County Care Center, 11.52% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care residents which were prescribed antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs are not medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Clay County Care Center, 22.76% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percent of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Clay County Care Center, 0% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Clay County Care Center, 97.67% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Clay County Care Center, 18.57% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Clay County Care Center, 21.65% of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Clay County Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Clay County Care Center, 21.65% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Clay County Care Center, 13.48% of Patients
Measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Clay County Care Center, 71.93% of Resident
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts believe that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Chatuge Regional HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 7.24 miles away110 S Main Street Hiawassee Georgia 30546Government - Hospital District or Authority(706) 896-2222
- Murphy Medical Center IncCritical Access Hospitals 9.09 miles away3990 East Us Highway 64 Alt Murphy North Carolina 28906Voluntary non-profit - Private(828) 837-8161
- Union General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.08 miles away35 Hospital Road Blairsville Georgia 30512Government - Hospital District or Authority(706) 745-2111
Nearby Dialysis
- Smokey Mountain Dialysis Denovo Facility12.22 miles away1611 Andrews Rd Murphy North Carolina 28906Dialysis Stations: 13 (828) 835-4910
- Union County Dialysis14.39 miles away72 Appalachian Avenue Blairsville Georgia 30512Dialysis Stations: 17 (706) 835-1925