Sanford Health & Rehabilitation is a large facility in Sanford, North Carolina. We gave this nursing home an extremely poor overall grade based on the data we assessed. If you are not satisfied with this facility's low overall grade, you may find you have slim pickings in Sanford. The city has just two other nursing homes. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, we will discuss inspections in the next paragraph.
Sanford Health & Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Short-term Care Quality
We were also surprised to find that this facility received a solid short-term care rating this year. We gave it a C in that category. Our short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. The facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.
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Long-term Care Quality
The third category we analyzed was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given an F. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 97.28097 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to the next area, this nursing home didn't perform well in this area either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is just about as terrible as it gets. The nursing score is based on quite a few data points, but the primary one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. With just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sanford Health & Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 10.18% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 3.86% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term patients which sustained a fall which resulted in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 3.21% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of long-term patients who have experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's may be a sign of worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may also be skewed for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 11.7% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 22.36% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 2.92% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 88.16% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 19.43% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Some argue this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 26.81% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 1.31 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 26.81 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 11.94 Percentage of Patients
Measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 72.2% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue that this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Central Carolina HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.86 miles away1135 Carthage St Sanford North Carolina 27330Voluntary non-profit - Private(919) 774-2100
- Chatham Hospital IncCritical Access Hospitals 19.55 miles away475 Progress Blvd Siler City North Carolina 27344Voluntary non-profit - Private(919) 799-4000
Nearby Dialysis
- Carolina Dialysis Sanford7.89 miles away1922 K M Wicker Memoriall Drive Sanford North Carolina 27330CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 33 (919) 718-0680
- Carolina Dialysis, LLC8.42 miles away115 Wilson Road Sanford North Carolina 27332CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (919) 775-3725
- Carolina Dialysis Pittsboro11.24 miles away480 Hillsboro Street Suite 300 Pittsboro North Carolina 27312Dialysis Stations: 10 (919) 545-0019
- Fuquay Varina Kidney Center18.18 miles away916 South Main Street Fuquay Varina North Carolina 27526CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 23 (919) 552-1926
- Bio-Medical Applications of North Carolina, Inc.18.47 miles away290 h.m. Cagle Drive Cameron North Carolina 28326Dialysis Stations: 12 (919) 499-1483
- Fresenius Medical Care Apex18.64 miles away1000 American Way Apex North Carolina 27502Dialysis Stations: 20 (919) 387-2898