Sanford Health & Rehabilitation Co
2702 Farrell Road, Sanford NC 27330 · (919) 776-9602 · 88.7% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Sanford Health & Rehabilitation Co is a large nursing home located in Sanford, North Carolina. This facility was given an F, which is really a bottom of the barrel score 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. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was inspections, which is discussed in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 131 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving a bad overall grade, we also awarded this nursing home terrible grades across the board in the various categories. In fact, it only received just a D for its inspections score, which is its top area. Inspection scores factor in many items found on the nursing home's inspection reports. When you see severe deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is typically a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This facility was assessed several deficiencies in categories J through L, which represent the worst possible deficiencies. These categories mean that inspectors uncovered deficiencies which place patient health or safety in imminent danger. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.
Short-term Care Quality
We also wanted to note this nursing home's bottom of the barrel short-term care grade where it was given an F. Short-term care grades are typically used to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Not surprisingly, we found that this facility offers substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical nursing home. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 48.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we assessed was long-term care. This nursing home's was given an unfortunate long-term care grade where it was given a lowly F. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care likely don't provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes provide. Once we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated only 88.34952 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.45 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.
Nurse Quality
The final area we analyzed was nursing, in which this facility was given a poor grade in this category as well. It received a lowly F in this category, which is obviously very concerning. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in computing our rating in this area. This facility provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sanford Health & Rehabilitation Co Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are often the result of lower levels of patient supervision. More supervision can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. High levels of depression could be an indicator worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess patient care during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better