Curis at Roanoke Transitional Care & Rehab Center
324 King George Ave Sw, Roanoke VA 24016 · (540) 345-8139 · 54.15% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Curis at Roanoke Transitional Care & Rehab Center is in Roanoke, Virginia, a city with 165,571 people. With an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a very poor nursing home. Fortunately, this nursing home is one of 10 nursing homes in this city so if you aren't impressed, you should have better options. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, we will discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 130 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, we didn't have any favorable things to say about this nursing home's overall score or its category grades. Its best category was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this area, it still performed relatively badly. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed. After considering the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated only 75.88425 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, we were stunned by the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home fared poorly with 3.9 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, this figure is more than twice the national average.
Facility Inspections
Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection score. More often than not, this means we found some major red flags on the facility's inspection reports. For nursing homes with poor inspection grades, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This facility had 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 3 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Nurse Quality
This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. When computing a facility's nursing score, we look at the number of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This place offered only 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is not a very impressive figure. This nursing home also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its low nursing hours. For starters, we looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than double the national average in this metric.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we assessed was short-term care, where this nursing home was given an abysmal grade in this area also. We gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is definitely a major concern. Our short-term care scores are vital for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With its score in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the data we assessed. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 33.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Curis at Roanoke Transitional Care & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who had a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care residents who were administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better