Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County is located in Sanford, North Carolina, a city with a population of 68,183 people. Our scoring system was not kind to this facility, as we gave it an overall rating of F. At the end of the day, you would be better off to steer clear of this nursing home. While this nursing home was given a single reasonable category grade for short-term care, which you can find more information about below.
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Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
Note: Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
Although this facility's overall score was as bad as it gets, it didn't perform terribly in the area of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is a decent score. That said, this wasn't enough to spare its otherwise poor profile. In our short-term care category, we endeavor to craft a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We were surprised to find that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. It offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last item we considered in this category is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.
Facility Inspections
Unfortunately, this facility earned really poor government inspection reports in recent years, causing us to give them an F for inspections. An F in this category is usually a signal that we found some major red flags on its government inspection reports. For places with poor inspection scores, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular facility had 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.
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Long-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its long-term care grade. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Nurse Quality
The last category we scored is nursing, in which this nursing home was given an abysmal grade here also. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is obviously a major concern. There are several data points included in this grade. Many of these subcategories reflect staffing levels. This particular place averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County, 23.57% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County, 4.32% of Patients had Serious Falls
This measures the percentage of long-term stay patients which had a fall leading to serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County, 4.89% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care minimizes the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County, 12.15% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that are given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of residents with cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County, 24.05% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure gauges the percent of long-term residents who are administered antianxiety medication. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County, 3.43% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are showing depressive symptoms. Some experts argue that this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County, 100% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these vaccines important for resident well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County, 22.37% of Patients
This is the percent of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County, 14.76% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County, 14.76% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County, 14.61% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Lee County, 74.54% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Central Carolina HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.8 miles away1135 Carthage St Sanford North Carolina 27330Voluntary non-profit - Private(919) 774-2100
Nearby Dialysis
- Carolina Dialysis, LLC1.86 miles away115 Wilson Road Sanford North Carolina 27332CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (919) 775-3725
- Carolina Dialysis Sanford4.88 miles away1922 K M Wicker Memoriall Drive Sanford North Carolina 27330CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 33 (919) 718-0680
- Bio-Medical Applications of North Carolina, Inc.9.93 miles away290 h.m. Cagle Drive Cameron North Carolina 28326Dialysis Stations: 12 (919) 499-1483
- Fresenius Medical Care of Lillington17.3 miles away1605 South Main Street Lillington North Carolina 27546Dialysis Stations: 14 (910) 814-1800
- Carthage Dialysis17.41 miles away165 Savannah Garden Dr Carthage North Carolina 28327Dialysis Stations: 12 (910) 947-1052