Nhc Healthcare - Laurens
379 Pinehaven Street Extension, Laurens SC 29360 · (864) 984-6584 · 91.53% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Nhc Healthcare - Laurens is located in Laurens, South Carolina. The city has 20,977 people. With an overall grade of A, this facility is among the top nursing homes we found. Based on the data we reviewed, you can't go wrong with this facility. If you scroll down, you will see this nursing home's category scores, which are just as impressive as its overall rating.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 176 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
On top of being an elite nursing home overall, this facility excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few places fared as well in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
To add to its strong accomplishments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A for our long-term care rating. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.79725 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.19 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our next category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for our short-term care rating. This is a first-rate grade. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who returned to the community from this nursing home. This place outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country with 55.2 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
In the last category, this facility also was awarded an excellent nursing score, with an A-. This completed a very strong profile. In determining our nursing ratings, we look at both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Nhc Healthcare - Laurens Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to poor nursing care. However, this metric may also be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term residents who are showing symptoms of depression. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of deterioration of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better