Summerstone Health and Rehabilitation Center
485 Veterans Way, Kernersville NC 27284 · (336) 515-3000 · 103.2% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Summerstone Health and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized facility located in Kernersville, North Carolina. This nursing home received an overall grade of D, which is a relatively poor score. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Kernersville. The city has just one other nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its strong inspection reports. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category scores
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 100 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we didn't give this facility a good overall score, we did give it a strong grade in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of B. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
Another one of this facility's more impressive category scores came in the area of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more than 50% more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in this area with 63.1 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, this nursing home's next best score was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this area, it still fared somewhat badly. For residents in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 98.859314 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our final category, this nursing home did not perform well in this category either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is really as terrible as it gets. Our nursing score analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility averaged just 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This number is well below average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Summerstone Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term patients who suffered from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This measures the percent of long-term care residents who experienced a fall which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients who were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of patients exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge patient care during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better