Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center-Snu

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility earned a far better grade for short-term care than it received overall. It received one of our highest scores in that category with an A-. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to create a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an B+. The nursing score is based on several components, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we assessed was long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. It actually outperformed most facilities in this area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on the final category of government inspections, we gave this facility a D for our inspection category. This proved to be its worst category grade, particularly in light of some of the more impressive grades referenced above. Nevertheless, since the inspection data is compiled by a government inspector, we weight it heavily in our overall grade. One of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We suggest you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This facility had 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this place received large government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This usually means that a nursing home's bad performance has been an issue for more than one year.