Mount Olive Center

Mount Olive Center is a large nursing home in Mount Olive, North Carolina. This facility received an overall grade of D based on the data we looked at. This place seems to have very little going for it. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

While we were fairly low on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with a list of deficiencies flagged. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home's second most favorable area was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this area. Short-term care grades are meaningful for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We were surprised to find that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of facilities with 52.2 percent of its patients returning home.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Our nursing rating weighs several subcategories, however, the main consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averaged a meager 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.

The final area we rated was long-term care. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is a rock bottom score. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.53658 percent of its patients, which is a very solid total. Surprisingly, this facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.21 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.