Raleigh Court Health and Rehabilitation Center
1527 Grandin Road Southwest, Roanoke VA 24015 · (540) 342-9525 · 95.58% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Raleigh Court Health and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Roanoke, Virginia. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B. A grade of this caliber requires respectable marks in most areas. Even in a city of 10 nursing homes, this nursing home turns out to be a fine choice. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
On top of being a quality facility overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in that area. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you 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 an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It outpaced most facilities in this category. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.07407 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. This nursing home was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had just 1.58 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
The next category we assessed was short-term care. This nursing home was given an impressive short-term care grade, with a B+ in the area. Our short-term care grade is often employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. We were extremely impressed to discover that this nursing home offers its patients significantly more hours of physical therapy than most other nursing homes. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Virginia in this area with 60 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
This facility's weakest area is nursing, which is the last category we looked at. For this category, we awarded this facility a D. The nursing rating is based on quite a few data points, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is well below average. Unfortunately, this place also did not perform as well as we hoped in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed for this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Raleigh Court Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's often correlates with better rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better