Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center-Snu

We want to point out that this facility received a far better grade for short-term care than its overall score. It received one of our highest scores in that category with an A-. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility also excelled in nursing, where it earned a grade of B+. In computing a facility's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses commit to patients and the skill levels of the nurses. 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 place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also was awarded a strong score in our long-term care category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in this category. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were not able to track down information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In our final category of inspections, this facility received an F in this area. This score was very detrimental to this facility's overall grade. For facilities that received this bad of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility was hit with 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this place received large government fines recently of over $100,000. This typically signifies that a bad performance has been an issue for multiple years.