Faith Healthcare Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Florence, South Carolina. With an overall rating of B+, this is actually ranked among the top three facilities in Florence. Based on our assessment, this nursing home ought to meet the needs of most people. This place's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next section.
Faith Healthcare Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
On top of being a strong facility overall, it also earned A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Among this nursing home's other accomplishments is its top-shelf long-term care score. We awarded them one of our best scores in that area, with a score of A. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 94.578316 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home 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.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. The nursing score includes a number of datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving a patient more often.
Short-term Care Quality
The last category we rated was short-term care. We gave it an F in this area, which is an abysmal grade. We would not necessarily rule out a nursing home as a result of a single terrible grade though. Short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we learned that this nursing home offers less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.2 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Faith Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Faith Healthcare Center, 9.68% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in the same position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Faith Healthcare Center, 3.49% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who suffered from a fall leading to severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Faith Healthcare Center, 3.26% of Patients had UTIs
This gauges the percentage of long-term patients that suffered from a UTI. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare different nursing homes due to nursing homes having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Faith Healthcare Center, 14.92% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents that are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such medications are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents with cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Faith Healthcare Center, 19.83% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Faith Healthcare Center, 2.74% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients demonstrating signs of depression. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Faith Healthcare Center, 88.77% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Faith Healthcare Center, 14.72% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Faith Healthcare Center, 22.47% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients that maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Faith Healthcare Center, 1.55 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Faith Healthcare Center, 22.47 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Faith Healthcare Center, 12.88 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Faith Healthcare Center, 72.67% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Florence, SC
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
Looking for more options? Florence, South Carolina has 6 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Mcleod Regional Medical Center-Pee DeeAcute Care Hospitals 1.12 miles away555 E Cheves St Box 8700 Florence South Carolina 29506Voluntary non-profit - Other(843) 777-2900
- Musc Health Florence Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.21 miles away805 Pamplico Hwy Box 100550 Florence South Carolina 29505Proprietary(843) 674-2500
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Kidney Care Florence Medical Mile0.78 miles away181 E. Evans Street Suite B Florence South Carolina 29506Dialysis Stations: 20 (843) 679-0550
- Total Renal Care, Inc.0.94 miles away1520 Flag Drive Florence South Carolina 29505Dialysis Stations: 20 (843) 413-0857
- Fresenius Medical Care Church Street1.14 miles away406 South Church Street Florence South Carolina 29501CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (843) 679-5945
- Florence Dialysis Center1.33 miles away435 North Cashua Dr Florence South Carolina 29501CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 31 (843) 669-0825
- Davita Sally Hill Dialysis1.73 miles away1471 N. Cashua Drive Florence South Carolina 29501Dialysis Stations: 12 (843) 664-9067
- Freedom Dialysis Center2.95 miles away1520 Freedom Boulevard Florence South Carolina 29505CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 28 (843) 667-0654
- Bio-Medical Applications of South Carolina, Inc.3.64 miles away1465 Pamplico Highway Florence South Carolina 29505Dialysis Stations: 1 (843) 413-9613
- Darlington Dialysis Center Inc7.27 miles away1018 South Governor Williams Highway Darlington South Carolina 29532CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (843) 398-5263