Edgecombe Health and Rehab Center

One of the reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is that it received an impressive inspection score. Inspections is its best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an A. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This facility was awarded an impressive long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that category with a grade of B. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.77528 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, this nursing home also received favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we gave it one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of B. Short-term care grades are meaningful for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home was awarded a B- in nursing, which is generally a decent rating. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.