Pender Memorial Hosp Snf
507 Fremont Street, Burgaw NC 28425 · (910) 259-5451 · 79.76% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Pender Memorial Hosp Snf is one of just a couple available nursing homes located in Burgaw, North Carolina. With an A overall grade, we ranked this nursing home in the top fifth of all facilities in the United States. We flat out can not say enough great things about this nursing home. If you look further down this page, you can see this facility's category grades, which are also quite good.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 43 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Other
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving a great overall score, this nursing home earned an A+ inspection grade. This score is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can offer a facility. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Our nursing grade is largely based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.7 hours per resident per day. This is more nursing care than nearly any other place offers. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls which lead to serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home in North Carolina.
Long-term Care Quality
We also want to note the fact that this nursing home was awarded an elite grade of A in our long-term care category. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the factors we considered on top of this facility's above average nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.24561 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the elderly. This combination proved to be successful as this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Short-term Care Quality
In the final category we analyzed, this facility was awarded a very favorable grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this grade, the facility rounded out a first-rate profile. Short-term care grades are typically used to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that it performed better than most nursing homes in this area with 54.4 percent of its residents returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Pender Memorial Hosp Snf Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents which developed pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used for treating a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and continence.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of patients who maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better