PruittHealth - Rock Hill

In addition to earning a strong overall rating, this facility fared even better in our inspections category which is associated with the facility's recent government inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Our inspection ratings are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home was awarded strong marks in the category of short-term care as well. Consequently, it received one of our highest grades in that area with a area of A-. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we looked at is long-term care. This facility was given a better than average long-term care grade this year, with a grade of B. This nursing home truly doesn't have any weak areas. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 95.666664 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.