South Roanoke Nursing Home
3823 Franklin Rd, Sw, Roanoke VA 24014 · (540) 344-4325 · 91.53% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
South Roanoke Nursing Home is an average-sized nursing home located in Roanoke, Virginia. This facility received an overall grade of B-, which is a solid rating. The nursing homes in Roanoke received quality grades across the board with a city grade of a B. The best part of this facility's profile is is its inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 98 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home really outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in this category with a grade of A-. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also fared well in the area of long-term care. For this reason, we gave it a score of A- for that area, which is one of our best grades. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.68652 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. This nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.19 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a substantially better hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.
Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. When computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are seeing patients and the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a low total compared with most nursing homes. Finally, we look at quality-based statistics, such as the percentage of patients who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these datapoints are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we rated is short-term care, proved to be this facility's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this area. This really is one of the few weak links on an otherwise impressive profile. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed 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 16.9 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.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
South Roanoke Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have had falls which resulted in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you 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 metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry argue that the ability to move around is important for patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better