Jesse Helms Nursing Center
1411 Dove Street, Monroe NC 28111 · (704) 283-3280 · 84% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Jesse Helms Nursing Center is in Monroe, North Carolina, a city with 76,676 people. With an overall grade of A+, this nursing home outscored most of the nursing homes in Monroe by a significant margin. This truly is impressive since the city offers some very good nursing homes. In addition, this is a hospital-based nursing home, which may add peace of mind for prospective patients with medical conditions frequently requiring hospitalization. This facility was also given phenomenal scores in each of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 70 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Other
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out that this nursing home has received near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. Unfortunately, we were not able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This exemplary nursing home also fared very well in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A+. Only a small group of nursing homes performed better in this category. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 97.872345 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than the average nursing home. The last statistic we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 2.18 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility also was given an A+ for its short-term care score. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is often a reliable measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. This place is above average in terms of both its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in this area with 68.2 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.
Nurse Quality
In our last area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our nursing score. This rounded out a first-rate profile. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was above the national average. Lastly, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Jesse Helms Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who had a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care residents who were administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better