Sanford Health & Rehabilitation is a large facility in Sanford, North Carolina. This nursing home received an overall grade of D in our grading scheme. 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 place's category grades, short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Sanford Health & Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
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
Short-term Care Quality
While we didn't rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable short-term care rating. We gave it a respectable grade of B in this area, which was much better than its overall grade. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is more often than not a reliable assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Facility Inspections
We were also pleasantly surprised to award this nursing home a relatively favorable government inspection rating as well. We gave it a respectable grade of B- in this category, which was much better than its overall score. Our inspection scores are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. 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.
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Long-term Care Quality
Sadly, this facility's next highest category is long-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared relatively badly. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.73817 percent of its patients, which is an above average datapoint. Surprisingly, this nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the last category, this nursing home didn't fare well in this area either. With an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. Our nursing score focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This facility offered just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This place performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sanford Health & Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 10.09% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 3.86% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term patients which experienced a fall leading to serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be an indicator of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 3.21% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poorer hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 11.74% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that are administered antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such medications are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to having more patients suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 22.05% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically prescribed to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 3.01% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 87.89% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 18.87% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 24.57% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 1.39 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 24.57 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 11.81 Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Sanford Health & Rehabilitation, 72.58% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
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