Seneca Health & Rehabilitation Center
140 Tokeena Rd, Seneca SC 29678 · (864) 882-1642 · 89.14% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Located in Seneca, South Carolina, Seneca Health & Rehabilitation Center is one of just two available facilities in this area. Featuring an overall score of B, this appears to be a good facility. Based on our ratings, you can do much worse than this facility. The best aspect of this facility's strong report card was its inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 128 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
On top of earning a great overall grade, this facility performed even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the nursing home's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility fared well in the category of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a score of A- for that category, which turns out to be one of our better scores. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 89.01099 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is somewhat lower than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.14 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
This facilities third best category is short-term care. We awarded it a B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the pack grade in this category. Short-term care grades are typically used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services To have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it performed decently in this area, with 46.8 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
The last category we assessed was nursing. This facility was awarded a grade of C in the category. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This facility was relatively weak in two of the areas we focus on, with subpar scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are often good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Seneca Health & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents that are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients which have sustained a fall which resulted in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who have sustained a UTI. UTI's could be a sign of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this metric could also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antipsychotic medications. These drugs may be used for treating a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Many in the industry argue that this is a measure of patient quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of the deterioration of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents who maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many believe that this is a measure of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better