Rocky Mount Health & Rehab Center

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this facility an A+ for its inspection grade. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall rating. Inspection grades weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This facility also was awarded a favorable score in our long-term care category. We gave this nursing home a better than average grade of B in that area. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.04306 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our nursing rating includes quite a few factors, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, although this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of our quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed well in this subcategory.

The next category we scored was short-term care. We gave this facility a grade of D for short-term care, rendering this the nursing home's weakest grade. Short-term care grades are vital for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This means a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. In this facility's case, it looks like it provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.