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Eckerd Living Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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Eckerd Living Center's website

250 Hospital Drive,
Highlands NC 28741

(828) 526-1315

61.5% estimated occupancy ¹

With an address in Highlands, North Carolina, Eckerd Living Center is the sole nursing home we were able to find there. This facility is among the most elite nursing homes we found. A grade in this range requires top-notch marks across the board. In addition, this is a hospital-based facility, which is a positive for prospective residents with medical conditions frequently requiring hospitalization. As you can find below, this facility performed just as well in our category scores. We gave it a straight A report card!

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
Has Family Council
For profit - Partnership
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Transportation
Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy

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Awards

Top Nursing Home in North Carolina Awards 2019

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Facility Inspections

In addition to being an elite facility overall, this facility also performed well in our inspections category, where it earned a grade of A+. Few places performed this well in this area. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Short-term Care Quality

This facility also fared very well in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Few facilities performed better in this category. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

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Long-term Care Quality

Contributing to its first-rate profile, this nursing home also received an excellent long-term care grade, with a grade of A-. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. 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 63.80368 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is a bit lower than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Nurse Quality

In the last area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our nursing rating. This completed a very favorable report card. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as good measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Eckerd Living Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Eckerd Living Center, 4.12% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Eckerd Living Center, 3.68% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure measures the percent of long-term stay residents who sustained a fall resulting in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Eckerd Living Center, 4.97% of Patients had UTIs

This statistic indicates the percent of long-term stay patients who have sustained urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint can be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Eckerd Living Center, 22.64% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many patients, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Eckerd Living Center, 42.18% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Eckerd Living Center, 12.42% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Eckerd Living Center, 78.01% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Eckerd Living Center, 17.12% of Patients

This is the percent of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the decline of a resident's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Eckerd Living Center, 18.23% of Residents

This tells you the percent of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Eckerd Living Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is key to the physical well-being of nursing home residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Eckerd Living Center, 18.23% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Eckerd Living Center, 9.25% of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Eckerd Living Center, 81.85% of Resident

This indicates the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

Highlands Cashiers HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 0.03 miles away190 Hospital Drive Highlands North Carolina 28741Voluntary non-profit - Private(828) 526-1200
Angel Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 12.69 miles away120 Riverview St PO Box 1209 Franklin North Carolina 28734Voluntary non-profit - Private(828) 524-8411