Lenoir Healthcare Center
322 Nuway Circle, Lenoir NC 28645 · (828) 758-7326 · 75.41% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Lenoir Healthcare Center is an average-sized facility in Lenoir, North Carolina. This nursing home is a lower end facility. A score of this caliber suggests we found a few red flags. If you are not satisfied with this facility's low overall grade, you may find you have slim pickings in Lenoir. The city has just two other nursing homes. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for that area, which is one of our highest scores. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid places that had too many deficiencies. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
We also gave this nursing home a middle of the road score in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. Our long-term care grade is used to measure a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 99.71429 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.44 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the category of short-term care, this facility received a grade of just D in this area. Short-term care ratings are important for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Considering its abysmal grade in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this place provides substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. This was not a strength either for this place. We found that just 47.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is below average.
Nurse Quality
The next area we assessed is nursing, where this facility received an abysmal grade in this category as well. It received an abysmal F for this category, which is obviously a major concern. The nursing grade is based on numerous factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averaged only 2.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is well below average. Unfortunately, this place also had abysmal scores in several of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than double the national average in this metric.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Lenoir Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls are often caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care patients that have sustained a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it is difficult to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients which were administered antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who 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.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some experts would argue this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that retained mobility levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is critical to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
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 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's usually correlates with better rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better