College Pines Health and Rehab Center

College Pines Health and Rehab Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Connellys Springs, North Carolina. This nursing home turns out to be a well above average facility, with an overall grade of B+. This nursing home truly has plenty of good features. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.

To pair with its favorable overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspection category. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility fared well in our short-term care category. As a result, we gave it a grade of A- for that category, which happens to be one of our better grades. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. It outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes with 63.5 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

In addition, this facility also was awarded favorable long-term care grades this year. Indeed, we gave it one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of B. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 96.694214 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death ailment for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to the final category, this nursing home received a respectable nursing grade. Even though this is not as impressive as a few of its other grades, this is still not a major area of concern. The nursing grade includes quite a few components, but the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. According to its CMS data, this facility provided an average of 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which was above the national average. Lastly, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This facility was relatively weak in two of the major data points we look at, with subpar scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are often good measures of the quality of nursing care provided.