Peak Resources - Alamance

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's deficiencies. We wish we had more information about this nursing home. Without having access to information regarding deficiencies, it ended up being a challenge to really grade the place in the inspections category.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category grades came in the category of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B. It actually performed better than most facilities in this category. With our short-term care score, we strive to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next highest area we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a C. Our long-term care scores are critical for individuals seeking personal care. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinates 99.49875 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's worst area was nursing, which is the last area we assessed. We gave it an F in this area. In spite of several respectable grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless disappointing so we wanted to make a note of it. Our nursing score assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.