Jesse Helms Nursing Center is a small non-profit nursing home in Monroe, North Carolina. With an overall grade of A, this is undoubtedly a world class nursing home. In fact, we were so impressed with this facility that we rated it as the number one facility in Monroe. Headlining this place's exemplary profile is its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.
Jesse Helms Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Other
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Pain Management
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. It doesn't look like we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
We also wanted to point out the fact that this facility was superb in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
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Nurse Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in determining our score in this category. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we looked at is long-term care. We gave this nursing home one of our higher grades in this area, with a grade of B. While this is not on par with many of this nursing home's other grades, it is still a perfectly acceptable score. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 89.20863 percent of its patients, which is somewhat below what we anticipated. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Jesse Helms Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Jesse Helms Nursing Center, 10.09% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Jesse Helms Nursing Center, 3.86% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Jesse Helms Nursing Center, 3.21% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term patients which sustained a UTI. UTI's may be a sign of poor nursing care. However, this datapoint can be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Jesse Helms Nursing Center, 11.74% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Jesse Helms Nursing Center, 22.05% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Jesse Helms Nursing Center, 3.01% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some experts would argue that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Jesse Helms Nursing Center, 87.89% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Jesse Helms Nursing Center, 18.87% Percentage of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and eating. Some argue this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Jesse Helms Nursing Center, 24.57% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Jesse Helms Nursing Center, 1.39 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is critical to preserving the physical health of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Jesse Helms Nursing Center, 24.57 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Jesse Helms Nursing Center, 11.81 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Jesse Helms Nursing Center, 72.58% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Atrium Health UnionAcute Care Hospitals 0.1 miles away600 Hospital Dr Monroe North Carolina 28112Government - Hospital District or Authority(704) 283-3100
- Rebound Behavioral HealthPsychiatric 17.8 miles away134 East Rebound Road Lancaster South Carolina 29720Proprietary(803) 313-3700
Nearby Dialysis
- Union County Dialysis0.52 miles away615 Comfort Lane Monroe North Carolina 28112CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 33 (704) 225-0944
- Metrolina Kidney Center Monroe0.52 miles away1338 East Sunset Drive Monroe North Carolina 28112CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (704) 289-8407
- Marshville Dialysis Center9.71 miles away7260 E Marshville Blvd Marshville North Carolina 28103Dialysis Stations: 12 (704) 624-5000
- Fresenius Kidney Care Indian Trail10.84 miles away7862 Idlewild Road Indian Trail North Carolina 28079Dialysis Stations: 10 (704) 628-0350
- Fresenius Medical Care Matthews14.86 miles away910 Park Center Drive Matthews North Carolina 28105CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (704) 443-2973
- Dva Healthcare Renal Care, Inc.15.34 miles away11308 Hawthorne Dr Charlotte North Carolina 28227Dialysis Stations: 16 (704) 573-2549
- Pageland Dialysis16.99 miles away505 a South Pearl Street Pageland South Carolina 29728Dialysis Stations: 16 (843) 672-3491
- South Charlotte Dialysis19.3 miles away6450 Bannington Road Charlotte North Carolina 28226CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 23 (704) 542-9499