Piedmont Crossing

Piedmont Crossing is located in Thomasville, North Carolina. The city has 46,084 people. With an overall grade of A+, this facility is among the top nursing homes we found. Based on the data we reviewed, you can't go wrong with this facility. If you scroll down, you will see this nursing home's category scores, which are just as impressive as its overall rating.

On top of being an elite nursing home overall, this facility excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few places fared as well in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this facility an A. Our nursing rating is mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. With 4.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Finally, this facility also excelled in several quality measures we looked at. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is often a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by offering better nursing care and a policy of moving residents at least once a day.

The third area we looked at is long-term care. Contributing to its top-shelf resume, this nursing home also performed well in this area. In fact, it received a of A in that category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. After considering the very impressive nursing care provided by this facility, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is much higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. This combination proved to be successful as this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.54 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the fourth area, this facility also performed well in the short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it an A for this area. This completed a straight A report card. In computing these short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. 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. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. It performed as well as just about any facility in North Carolina in this area with 59.7 percent of its residents returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.