Nhc Health Care, Charleston
2230 Ashley Crossing Drive, Charleston SC 29414 · (843) 766-5228 · 76.25% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Nhc Health Care, Charleston is in Charleston, South Carolina. The city has 177,294 people. After receiving an A+ overall grade, this facility has the distinction of being one of the top 25 nursing homes in South Carolina. Based on all of the relevant data, you can't go wrong with this place. Headlining this nursing home's exemplary profile is its inspection rating, which is addressed in the next section.
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home also earned an A+ inspection grade. This score is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A+. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provided 5.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This was one of the highest figures we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of offering high levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed as well as any facility in South Carolina in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on our third category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for its short-term care grade. This is a very strong rating. Short-term care scores are critical for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Remarkably, this place provides about one and a half times as many hours of services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we assessed. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in the country with 60 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Long-term Care Quality
In the final category we graded, this facility received a very favorable grade of A in our long-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home topped off a straight A profile. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 90.909096 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Nhc Health Care, Charleston Quality Metrics
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls resulting in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term care patients who had UTI's. While a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term care patients which are given antianxiety medication. These drugs are used to treat residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better