Seneca Health & Rehabilitation Center

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

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.

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.

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.

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.