Haymount Rehabilitation & Nursing Center

Haymount Rehabilitation & Nursing Center is in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The city has a total of 238,602 people. Featuring an overall score of B-, this appears to be a decent facility. Even in a city featuring 10 nursing homes, this one looks like a respectable option. The best part of this facility's profile is its stellar inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This facility's next highest area turned out to be its short-term care grade, where it was awarded a grade of B-. In forming our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. It performed better than most facilities in this area with 53.4 percent of its residents returning home. At most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

We also awarded this nursing home a decent grade in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a C. In determining our long-term care grades, we size up the personal care received by a facility's residents. This facility's vaccination data lagged a bit behind a few of its other datapoints in this category, such as its nursing hours data. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 87.5 percent of its residents. We would love to see some improvement in this area next year. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. This nursing home didn't excel here either, with 3.35 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities due to the medical complexity of residents.

The final category we graded is nursing. We gave this nursing home a D for the area of nursing, rendering this its worst area. Our nursing score assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. According to CMS records, this place averaged 4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This was actually above the national average. Keep in mind, however, that when we compute our nursing grades, we apply more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of skill. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic pulled down this facility's nursing grade substantially.