Nc State Veterans Home - Fayetteville

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. This score is better than this place's overall score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B- in the area. Our nursing grade is largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed remarkably well in this metric.

This nursing home's next best category was long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the pack score in this area. In the area of long-term care, we look at the quantity of care provided by a facility, as opposed to more sophisticated services. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We discovered that this nursing home gave the vaccine to a relatively low 82.938385 percent of its patients, which is slightly concerning. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Switching gears to the fourth area, we awarded this facility a D in the area of short-term care. This is the facility's weakest category score. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more skilled nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Considering its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.1 percent of its patients returning home.