Kenansville Health & Rehabilitation Center

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B+ for our inspections category. This grade is far better than the facility's overall grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively minor. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of this nursing home's higher category grades came in the category of long-term care. This ended up being its second best category. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. In the category of long-term care, we weigh the quantity of care provided by a nursing home, rather than more sophisticated services. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Sadly, this nursing home's third highest score was short-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this area, it still performed relatively poorly. In forming these short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Given its score in this area, we were not surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

The last area we assessed is nursing. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category, which is an abysmal score. In calculating our nursing scores, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. This nursing home also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its weak nursing hours. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than double the national average in this metric. This is concerning when you consider that so many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a very weak nursing rating.