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. This is a relatively poor facility, with an overall grade of D. Based on our assessment, we'd struggle to recommend this nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its impressive inspection score. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category scores
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Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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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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Facility Inspections
While we were fairly low on this facility overall, we awarded it an A- for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Our inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. 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. Not having any deficiencies proved to be this facility's best achievement.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's short-term care rating ended up being one of its respectable grades. The facility was given a grade of C in this area. In our short-term care score, we seek to forge a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. We were surprised to find that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility ended up receiving a an abysmal score in our long-term care category. It received an F in this area. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 97.47475 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
Nurse Quality
Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home did not fare very well in this category either. With a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is just about as bad as it gets. The nursing rating assesses a handful of factors, but the most important one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is well below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
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, 10% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 3.84% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of long-term patients who sustained falls which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 3.14% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who suffered from a UTI. UTI's may be an indicator of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 12.15% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. These medications may be used for a variety of conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 21.12% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients who are prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 3.84% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients exhibiting depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression could reveal a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 88.29% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these vaccines vital to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 19.92% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the decline of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 21.81% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 1.47 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 21.81 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 12.78 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation, 73.13% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
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