Huntersville Health & Rehab Center

Huntersville Health & Rehab Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Huntersville, North Carolina. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A score of this caliber requires some decent scores. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Huntersville, which is admittedly a bit below average nationally. The best part of this place's profile was is its inspection rating. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

In addition, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was awarded positive short-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our higher grades in that area, with a grade of B+. This turned out to be the facility's second highest grade. Our short-term care scores are important for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more than 50% more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes with 71.2 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home's second lowest category is long-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that category. This is a relatively poor grade. Facilities that don't fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. This facility's vaccination statistics were a bit weaker than a few of its other statistics in this area, such as its nursing hours data. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 64.13044 percent of its patients. We'd love to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.44 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

The next category we looked at was nursing, which was this nursing home's least impressive category. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category, which is certainly a major concern. Nursing ratings are largely associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. Quantity of nursing care is apparently not the issue here with this facility's grade. This nursing home actually provides an above average 4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this facility didn't fare as well in the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility was above the national average in both statistics. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these metrics dragged down this facility's nursing grade significantly.