Pembroke Center

Pembroke Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Pembroke, North Carolina. We awarded it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road score. At the end of the day, this facility should be a solid choice for quite a few people. The best part of this place's profile was its stellar inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next section.

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its excellent health inspection reports in recent years. We gave them an A in this category. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another one of this facility's better category scores was in the category of long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.25373 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a life threatening illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not take any chances. This nursing home was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. While it had 2.53 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than most nursing homes due to it having more complicated patients.

Another issue was the F this facility was given in the category of short-term care. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Based on its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 43.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final area we rated is nursing. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is a poor grade. This is obviously a major concern. The nursing grade considers a host of factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This facility provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. This facility also had terrible scores in several of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than twice the national average in this statistic. This is alarming when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a very weak nursing grade.