Randolph County Care Center

While we were not high on this nursing home's overall grade, it received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A-. Our inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

The next best area we gave this facility in any area came in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. Long-term care grades are meaningful for residents requiring non-healthcare services such as personal care. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.26776 percent of its patients. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. When determining our nursing ratings, we weigh both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. With only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were far below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we rated was short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. Our short-term care ratings are important for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.