Johns Island Post Acute

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent health inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also gave this facility a positive score in long-term care. This facility received a grade of B in this category, which turns out to be one of our higher grades. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.04306 percent of its patients, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Next we wanted to quickly point out one of this facility's major weaknesses. In the area of nursing care, we gave this nursing home a lowly grade of F. When calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the number of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This statistic is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility's weakest area is short-term care, which is the last area we scored. It received a lowly F for this area. Even with a few solid grades in other categories, this score is nevertheless concerning so we felt obligated to point it out. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Based on its score in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this place was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the figures we looked at. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics sunk this facility's short-term care grade.