Kenansville Health & Rehabilitation Center

Kenansville Health & Rehabilitation Center is in Kenansville, North Carolina. This city has a population of 3,724 people. It looks like this facility is a relatively poor facility. A score of this caliber indicates we found some red flags. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Kenansville. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its impressive inspection grade. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category grades

Although we didn't grade this nursing home favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent grade in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A+. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid facilities that had too many severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We also awarded this nursing home a respectable score in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. In forming our long-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's personal care services. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is more than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.47 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less impressive than its other scores in the long-term care area.

Another concern is the F this nursing home received in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 41.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this facility's short-term care grade.

The last category we rated was nursing. It received a lowly F for this category, which is a very poor score. Our nursing score is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than twice the national average in this statistic.