Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center turns out to be one of several options at your disposal in Charlotte, North Carolina. With an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a very poor nursing home. Keep in mind that Charlotte received a city grade of B-, so should consider some other options in the city as well. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, we will discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.
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Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
Note: Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Pharmacy
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Long-term Care Quality
We really couldn't find anything good to say about this place. It received just a D in the area of long-term care. Nursing homes that do not score well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 93.33333 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.05 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's inspection grades where it received an F. This generally means we found some red flags on the inspection reports. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection grade. We suggest you pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.
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Short-term Care Quality
Another issue was the F this facility was given in the area of short-term care. In forming our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Based on its score in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to the last area, this facility really didn't perform very well in this area either. Due to a poor grade of F in nursing, this is just about as terrible as it gets. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these metrics hurt this facility's nursing rating significantly.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 8.92% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often caused by patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 4.1% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients that have suffered a fall which resulted in severe injury. We use this statistic in determining nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 0.54% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term residents who had urinary tract infections. While more of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 12.46% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents that were given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely more on these drugs due to having more patients suffering from cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 19.79% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 2.05% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 88.77% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 27.12% of Patients
This is the percent of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the deterioration of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 24.08% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who maintained mobility. Some believe that the ability to move around is important for residents' mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 0.05 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to preserving the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 24.08% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 10.92% of Patients
Measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 66.2% of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of independence with ADL's generally correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Scores for Charlotte, NC
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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