Nc State Veterans Home - Fayetteville

Nc State Veterans Home - Fayetteville is a nursing home located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a city with a total of 238,602 people. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B, which is a strong rating. Indeed, it is ranked among the top three nursing homes in the city. Even with Fayetteville offering 10 nursing homes to select from, this one ought to be a fine selection. This place's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which is addressed in the next section.

This nursing home received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily something to panic about.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an B+. Nursing ratings are tied to levels of nurse staffing. With 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this nursing home surpassed the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

Turning to another strength for this facility, we gave them one of our more favorable grades in our long-term care category as well, with a B+. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. One of the statistics we considered after this facility's quality nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.13084 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly. This combination proved to be effective as this place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.97 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final category we assessed was short-term care. We gave this facility a D for the area of short-term care, rendering this its least impressive grade. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 22.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.