Litchford Falls Healthcare is in Raleigh, North Carolina, which is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the nation. We gave this facility a C overall, which isn't a bad score. This is comparable with the city grade in Raleigh, which is a B-. At the end of the day, this nursing home would be a good fit for quite a few people. The best part of this place's profile was its exemplary inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Litchford Falls Healthcare
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was awarded favorable long-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B. This turned out to be the facility's second strongest score. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 98 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a deadly ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition, we gave this facility a rock-bottom F in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care scores are important for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing. This means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Given its poor rating in this area, we weren't stunned to discover this place provides substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.9 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below the national average.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home's least impressive category was nursing, which is the last area we looked at. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this category. Despite some acceptable scores in other categories, this grade is still disappointing so we wanted to point it out. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This facility offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This place performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Litchford Falls Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Litchford Falls Healthcare, 10.09% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Litchford Falls Healthcare, 3.86% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls which result in injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Litchford Falls Healthcare, 3.21% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often associated with nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Better hygiene protocols minimizes the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Litchford Falls Healthcare, 11.74% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are used for treating a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Litchford Falls Healthcare, 22.05% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are commonly used to treat residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Litchford Falls Healthcare, 3.01% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Litchford Falls Healthcare, 87.89% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Litchford Falls Healthcare, 18.87% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Litchford Falls Healthcare, 24.57% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Litchford Falls Healthcare, 1.39 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Litchford Falls Healthcare, 24.57 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Litchford Falls Healthcare, 11.81 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Litchford Falls Healthcare, 72.58% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a measure of rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Raleigh, NC
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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