With an address in Morganton, North Carolina, Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center is one of just three available nursing homes in this city. Featuring an overall score of C, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Morganton, which admittedly is admittedly a little below average nationally. One of the best aspects of this facility's report card is its stellar inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.
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Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 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 - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Facility Inspections
The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with an A. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home was given its second best category score in the category of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable score. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 98.7013 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next most favorable area came in the area of short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a C. With our short-term care rating, we seek to forge a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.
Nurse Quality
The last area we analyzed was nursing, which ended up being this nursing home's weakest category. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this area, which is clearly a major disappointment. The nursing rating assesses a handful of components, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics hurt this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center, 8.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center, 5.19% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a fall resulting in major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center, 2.33% of Patients had UTIs
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that have suffered from UTI's. UTI's could be an indicator of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this metric could also be skewed for some facilities due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center, 5.07% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who were administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents suffering from cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center, 18.66% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center, 43.62% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center, 98.76% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center, 8.6% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and eating. Some believe that this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center, 15.28% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents who maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center, 15.28% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized 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 Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center, 10.51% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Grace Heights Health & Rehab Center, 78.9% of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Carolinas Healthcare System-Blue RidgeAcute Care Hospitals 0.41 miles away2201 S Sterling St Morganton North Carolina 28655Proprietary(828) 580-5000
- Caldwell Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.39 miles away321 Mulberry St Sw Lenoir North Carolina 28645Voluntary non-profit - Other(828) 757-5100
- Frye Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 17.63 miles away420 N Center St Hickory North Carolina 28601Proprietary(828) 322-6070
Nearby Dialysis
- Bma of Burke County Inc3.13 miles away814 West Union St Morganton North Carolina 28655CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 36 (828) 439-8489
- Bma of Lenoir Inc14.38 miles away322 Mulberry Street Sw Lenoir North Carolina 28645CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 34 (828) 754-5322
- Davita Catawba County Dialysis19.34 miles away1900 3rd Avenue Lane Se Hickory North Carolina 28602Dialysis Stations: 10 (828) 304-0102
- Fmc Dialysis Services of Hickory19.4 miles away1899 Tate Blvd Ste 1103 Hickory North Carolina 28602CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 35 (828) 324-9580
- Bio-Medical Applications of North Carolina, Inc.19.4 miles away1899 Tate Blvd Se Suite 2102 Hickory North Carolina 28602Dialysis Stations: 5 (828) 304-0018