Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation is a senior living facility located in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, a city with a total of 40,699 people. We awarded it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road score. This nursing home has a few things going for it. One of the better aspects of this facility's profile is its strong inspection rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation
- 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 - Limited Liability company
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
We want to point out that this nursing home really outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in this category with an A-. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. This is certainly an excellent sign for the quality of care at this nursing home.
Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, we also would like to note that this nursing home was awarded impressive short-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our more impressive scores in this area, with a B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second highest score. Short-term care scores are critical for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.
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Long-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, this facility's next best score was long-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this area, it still fared somewhat poorly. For residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 96.642685 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.
Nurse Quality
The last category we looked at is nursing, which is this facility's least impressive category. We gave it an F for this category, which is certainly a major concern. The nursing grade consists of quite a few subcategories, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home offered just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This facility also had terrible scores in several of the quality-based measures to pair with its low nursing hour totals. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than double the national average in this metric.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 17.98% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 1.92% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls which result in injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely associated with a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this statistic can be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 3.05% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 13.42% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term stay patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 5.1% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 97.15% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 21.93% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and bathing. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 24.84% of Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term residents that retained mobility levels. Many would argue that mobility is critical to residents' physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 24.84% 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 Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 21.62% of Patients
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 85.26% of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Sentara Albemarle Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.57 miles away1144 N Road St Elizabeth City North Carolina 27909Government - Hospital District or Authority(252) 335-0531
Nearby Dialysis
- Elizabeth City Dialysis0.89 miles away1840 West City Dr Elizabeth City North Carolina 27909CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 28 (252) 338-2217
- Albermarle Dialysis1.01 miles away101 Davita Lane Elizabeth City North Carolina 27909Dialysis Stations: 13 (252) 338-0151
- Perquimans Dialysis - Nc13.46 miles away210 Ocean Hwy S Hertford North Carolina 27944Dialysis Stations: 10 (252) 426-3347