Siler City Center

While we gave this nursing home a poor overall score, we actually gave it a fairly respectable grade in nursing, where it received a grade of B-. This was certainly better than its other category grades. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it scored well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care provided.

We gave this nursing home a C for the category of inspections. This is better than the nursing home's overall grade. We would argue that one of the most important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of the deficiencies. This place was hit with 7 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were category G through L deficiencies. This means that it dodged the more significant categories of deficiencies. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 94.88636 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. This nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last area we analyzed was short-term care, turned out to be this nursing home's weakest category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we considered the number of residents that returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.