Shem Creek Nursing and Rehab

With an address in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, Shem Creek Nursing and Rehab is one of five nursing homes in the city. With an A overall grade, we rated this facility in the top 25 percent of all nursing homes in the United States. We couldn't find many bad things to say about this facility. Its scores are just impeccable. Headlining this facility's exemplary report card is its inspection rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. We weren't able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its elite accomplishments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for its long-term care grade. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. It goes without saying that we were content with what we found here in this area.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. We assessed the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in computing our score in this area. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the final category, this facility also was awarded an impressive short-term care score, with a B+. This finished off an elite profile. Short-term care grades are often used to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.