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Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: F
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Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation's website

100 Sunset Street,
Granite Falls NC 28630

(828) 396-2387

92.83% estimated occupancy 1

Note: Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.

Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation is located in Granite Falls, North Carolina. With a abysmal overall grade of F, this nursing home isn't high on our list. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Granite Falls. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, we will discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2022)
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Facility Inspections

Grade: B-minus

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

Incredibly, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for its long-term care grade, which really isn't too bad of a score. In computing our long-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.72452 percent of its patients. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: D

As it turns out, this facility only received a D for its short-term care rating, which is well below average in this category. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is more often than not a solid measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Considering its score in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 5.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: F

Moving on to the last category, this nursing home didn't perform well here either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is just about as terrible as it gets. The nursing grade features a number of factors. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is well below average. Unfortunately, this place also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this metric.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: C

In Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation, 11.22% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term residents who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a reliable measure of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A

In Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation, 1.38% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric indicates the percentage of long-term patients which sustained a fall resulting in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining nursing ratings.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A

In Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation, 0.28% of Patients had UTIs

This figure indicates the percent of long-term care patients who have suffered from a UTI. UTI's may be a sign of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this statistic can be skewed for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A

In Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation, 6.43% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation, 21.55% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: D

In Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation, 15.32% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation, 97.21% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation, 12.2% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: C

In Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation, 11.34% of Residents

Measures the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Many argue that mobility is important for patients mental and physical health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: C

In Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of long-term care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation, 11.34% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation, 13.62% of Patients

This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: D

In Hickory Falls Health and Rehabilitation, 66.48% of Resident

This metric measures the percentage of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Frye Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.48 miles away420 N Center St Hickory North Carolina 28601Proprietary(828) 322-6070
  • Caldwell Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.99 miles away321 Mulberry St Sw Lenoir North Carolina 28645Voluntary non-profit - Other(828) 757-5100
  • Catawba Valley Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 11.84 miles away810 Fairgrove Church Rd Hickory North Carolina 28602Voluntary non-profit - Other(828) 326-3809
  • Carolinas Healthcare System-Blue RidgeAcute Care Hospitals 13.07 miles away2201 S Sterling St Morganton North Carolina 28655Proprietary(828) 580-5000

Nearby Dialysis

  • Bma of Lenoir Inc8.96 miles away322 Mulberry Street Sw Lenoir North Carolina 28645CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 34 (828) 754-5322
  • Bio-Medical Applications of North Carolina, Inc.9.25 miles away1899 Tate Blvd Se Suite 2102 Hickory North Carolina 28602Dialysis Stations: 5 (828) 304-0018
  • Fmc Dialysis Services of Hickory9.25 miles away1899 Tate Blvd Ste 1103 Hickory North Carolina 28602CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 35 (828) 324-9580
  • Davita Catawba County Dialysis9.29 miles away1900 3rd Avenue Lane Se Hickory North Carolina 28602Dialysis Stations: 10 (828) 304-0102
  • Fresenius Medical Services of Catawba Valley13.76 miles away301 10th Street Nw Suite C 101 Conover North Carolina 28613CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (828) 464-3830
  • Bio-Medical Applications of North Carolina, Inc.14.49 miles away3802 Startown Rd Newton North Carolina 28658Dialysis Stations: 15 (828) 465-2006
  • Bma of Burke County Inc15.33 miles away814 West Union St Morganton North Carolina 28655CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 36 (828) 439-8489
  • Fresenius Medical Care of Alexander County16.33 miles away175 Commerce Drive Taylorsville North Carolina 28681Dialysis Stations: 13 (828) 632-3547

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=345246