Hunter Woods Nursing and Rehab

Hunter Woods Nursing and Rehab is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The city has a multitude of options. Featuring an overall score of D, this is a well below average nursing home. Charlotte received a city grade of B-, so there are other options in the city worth considering. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its impressive inspection score. You can continue reading to learn more about inspections and other category scores

Although we didn't grade this facility favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent score in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities with severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this facility an C. There are a variety of criteria within this category. Many of the datapoints relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.

The next best category we gave this facility in any category came in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. Our long-term care ratings are more critical for patients requiring more traditional services associated with activities of daily living. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.234695 percent of its residents. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. With 1.92 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this place is not too far off the national average.

The final area we rated was short-term care. Sadly, it received an F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is often a useful assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 36.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.