Kingston Nursing Center is an average-sized nursing home in Conway, South Carolina. This facility received an overall grade of B+, which is a strong rating. Remarkably, the facilities in Conway received high grades across the board, making this one of the better places in South Carolina to find a nursing home. This nursing home was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Kingston Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
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Awards
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Short-term Care Quality
To go along with its strong overall score, we awarded this facility an impressive grade of A for short-term care. In forming our short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. 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, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A-. Our nursing grade is largely associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a patient even once per day.
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Facility Inspections
This facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the facility's recent government inspection reports. We gave it a grade of B+ for that category, which is among our highest scores. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we scored was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a grade of C. While this wound up being its least impressive category grade, this is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. For residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We found that this nursing home vaccinated only 48.60558 percent of its residents, which is several points lower than we expected. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Kingston Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Kingston Nursing Center, 6.6% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols limits the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Kingston Nursing Center, 6.77% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a fall which caused major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Kingston Nursing Center, 2.1% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often linked to a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Kingston Nursing Center, 12.6% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Kingston Nursing Center, 26.83% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly used to treat patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Kingston Nursing Center, 1.27% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients exhibiting symptoms of depression. Higher levels of depression may be an indicator a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Kingston Nursing Center, 70.87% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Kingston Nursing Center, 10.64% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and bathing. Many argue that this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Kingston Nursing Center, 20.35% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Kingston Nursing Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Kingston Nursing Center, 20.35% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Kingston Nursing Center, 14.64% of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Kingston Nursing Center, 78.13% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with better rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Conway Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.15 miles away300 Singleton Ridge Road Conway South Carolina 29526Voluntary non-profit - Private(843) 347-8037
- Lighthouse Behavioral Health HospitalPsychiatric 0.27 miles away152 Waccamaw Medical Park Drive Conway South Carolina 29526Proprietary(843) 347-8871
- Grand Strand Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.69 miles away809 82nd Parkway Myrtle Beach South Carolina 29572Proprietary(843) 692-1000
- Mcleod Loris HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 19.94 miles away3655 Mitchell Street Loris South Carolina 29569Voluntary non-profit - Private(843) 716-7000
Nearby Dialysis
- Conway Dialysis Center1.19 miles away838 Farrar Drive Conway South Carolina 29526Dialysis Stations: 20 (843) 347-5111
- Fresenius Medical Care West Conway4.37 miles away1702 Millpond Road Conway South Carolina 29527CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (843) 488-0328
- Myrtle Beach Dialysis8.63 miles away3919 Mayfair Street Myrtle Beach South Carolina 29577Dialysis Stations: 16 (843) 448-4920
- Fresenius Medical Care Myrtle Beach8.64 miles away4592 Oleander Dr Myrtle Beach South Carolina 29577CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (843) 839-4273
- Total Renal Care, Inc.9.01 miles away1350 Farrow Parkway Suite 100 Myrtle Beach South Carolina 29577CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (843) 839-0966
- Fmc Dialysis Services Murrells Inlet16.45 miles away5011 Highway 17 Bypass Murrells Inlet South Carolina 29576CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (843) 357-4840
- Davita Longs Dialysis16.7 miles away90 Cloverleaf Dr Suite 306 Longs South Carolina 29568Dialysis Stations: 10 (843) 399-5275
- Fmc Dialysis Services North Myrtle Beach19.66 miles away1307 13th Avenue North North Myrtle Beach South Carolina 29582CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (843) 361-1709