Rocky Mount Rehabilitation Center

Rocky Mount Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. This facility was given an overall rating of F. Although the city grade in Rocky Mount which is also just a D, you still ought to be able to do better. In spite of all this, this nursing home surprisingly performed well in our inspections category, which you can read more about below.

Although we gave this facility a horrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of A for our inspections score. This grade is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid places that had a long list of severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem 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 necessarily the end of the world.

In our next category, we gave this facility an F in the area of short-term care. In calculating these short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. In this nursing home's case, we found that it actually offers far less registered nurse hours per patient than a typical nursing home. Given its score in this area, this did not surprise us. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 41.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

Tragically, we gave this facility an F for its long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this facility vaccinated just 87.23404 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this place fared poorly with 3.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this statistic is nearly twice the national average.

The last category we assessed is nursing. This nursing home was given an abysmal grade of F in that area. The nursing rating consists of quite a few data points, however, the main one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had terrible scores in several of the quality-based metrics to go along with its low nursing hours. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than double the national average in this metric.