Savannah Grace at the Palms of Mt Pleasant
1010 Lake Hunter Circle, Mount Pleasant SC 29464 · (843) 388-2030 · 71.19% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Savannah Grace at the Palms of Mt Pleasant is one of five nursing homes in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. This nursing home turns out to be an A+ facility, which is our most impressive score. Based on our assessment, this nursing home is just about as as good as it gets. Scroll down to see this facility's category ratings, which are equally impressive. You really can't do much better than a straight A profile.
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
On top of earning a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ short-term care grade. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Remarkably, this nursing home provides about 50% more services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is a very favorable sign. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in this area with 68.6 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received an A+ nursing grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. Nursing scores are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 6.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This was one of the highest totals we found. In addition, a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients suffering falls resulting in major injury, this place performed as well as any nursing home South Carolina.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also received excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best scores in that category, with a grade of A. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we graded was long-term care, where this facility was awarded an A. This finished off a very impressive profile. Not many facilities received an A- or better in each of our categories. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This facility's vaccination records were a bit weaker than some of the other data points in this area, such as its nursing hours. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 68.085106 percent of its residents. We'd like to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Savannah Grace at the Palms of Mt Pleasant Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term patients who suffered from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This measures the percent of long-term care residents who experienced a fall which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients who were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of patients exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge patient care during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better