St Joseph of the Pines Health Center is one of a mere three facilities located in Pinehurst, North Carolina. This facility was given an A- overall, which is very favorable score. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all facilities in the country. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was short-term care, which is addressed in the next section.
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St Joseph of the Pines Health Center
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition to performing well overall, this facility earned an excellent short-term care rating. In fact, we gave it an A in that area. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A-. Not many nursing homes performed as well in this area. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider 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.
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Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to its first-rate resume, this facility also received an excellent long-term care score, with a grade of A-. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 97.08029 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Nurse Quality
The final category we rated was nursing, in which this facility was given a B-. While this proved to be its least impressive category grade, this is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. The nursing rating weighs a number of factors. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St Joseph of the Pines Health Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In St Joseph of the Pines Health Center, 10% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term care residents that developed pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are an indicator of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In St Joseph of the Pines Health Center, 3.84% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of long-term patients that suffered falls leading to major injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In St Joseph of the Pines Health Center, 3.14% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. However, this statistic could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In St Joseph of the Pines Health Center, 12.15% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In St Joseph of the Pines Health Center, 21.12% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In St Joseph of the Pines Health Center, 3.84% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. Some argue that this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In St Joseph of the Pines Health Center, 88.29% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In St Joseph of the Pines Health Center, 19.92% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate deterioration of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In St Joseph of the Pines Health Center, 21.81% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of residents that maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In St Joseph of the Pines Health Center, 1.47 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In St Joseph of the Pines Health Center, 21.81 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In St Joseph of the Pines Health Center, 12.78 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In St Joseph of the Pines Health Center, 73.13% Percentage of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Firsthealth Moore Regional HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.77 miles away155 Memorial Drive Pinehurst North Carolina 28374Voluntary non-profit - Private(910) 715-1000
- Cape Fear Valley Hoke HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 19.65 miles away210 Medical Pavilion Drive Raeford North Carolina 28376Voluntary non-profit - Private(910) 904-8000
Nearby Dialysis
- Dialysis Care of Moore County Inc4.44 miles away16 Regional Drive Pinehurst North Carolina 28374CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (910) 295-2124
- Southern Pines Dialysis Center4.62 miles away209 Windstar Place Southern Pines North Carolina 28387Dialysis Stations: 15 (910) 692-6218
- Carthage Dialysis7.49 miles away165 Savannah Garden Dr Carthage North Carolina 28327Dialysis Stations: 12 (910) 947-1052
- Bio-Medical Applications of North Carolina, Inc.10.15 miles away290 h.m. Cagle Drive Cameron North Carolina 28326Dialysis Stations: 12 (919) 499-1483
- Dialysis Care of Hoke County Inc18.96 miles away403 South Main Street Raeford North Carolina 28376CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (910) 875-6561