Scotland County Care Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest scores in this area with a grade of A-. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facilities second best category is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this category. In forming these long-term care scores, we assess the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 98.50746 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. Nursing scores are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This particular facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it scored well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Moving on to our final category, this facility did not fare well. With an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is this nursing home's weakest area. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is typically a fair measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. With its score in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 3.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.