Tsali Care Center is a nursing home located in Cherokee, North Carolina, which has a total of 8,048 people. This facility was awarded an overall grade of B, which is a good rating. You can certainly do much worse than this facility. As you will see below, this facility also performed well in our category ratings. It would be hard to poke holes in this nursing home's profile.
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Tsali Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Government - Hospital district
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
To go along with its impressive overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Our nursing score is primarily associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also received a strong short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our short-term care ratings are presumably more important for people in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that returned home from this facility. We found that 4.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
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Facility Inspections
This facility earned a B for its inspections score. This is an above average grade in this category. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, this place was assessed a category L deficiency, which is unexpected given its inspection grade. This category of deficiency means the government inspectors uncovered a widespread deficiency putting patient health or safety in immediate jeopardy. In spite of this major red flag, other aspects of this facility's inspection report gave us some hope.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of B. This facility ended up being very solid in each category we looked at. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 94.97488 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Tsali Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Tsali Care Center, 12.38% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients who suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Tsali Care Center, 4.52% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are routinely caused by poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Tsali Care Center, 1.04% of Patients had UTIs
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents that have had urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indicator of a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Tsali Care Center, 13.13% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Tsali Care Center, 16.67% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Tsali Care Center, 0% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who are showing depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression could be an indicator worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Tsali Care Center, 95.06% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Tsali Care Center, 16.28% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Tsali Care Center, 17.76% of Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients that retained mobility levels. Some experts argue that the ability to move around is critical to patients physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
In Tsali Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Tsali Care Center, 17.76% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Tsali Care Center, 6.1% of Patients
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Nearby Hospitals
- Swain County HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 5.5 miles away45 Plateau Street Bryson City North Carolina 28713Voluntary non-profit - Private(828) 488-2155
- Harris Regional HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.27 miles away68 Hospital Rd Sylva North Carolina 28779Proprietary(828) 586-7000
- Angel Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 19.61 miles away120 Riverview St PO Box 1209 Franklin North Carolina 28734Voluntary non-profit - Private(828) 524-8411
Nearby Dialysis
- Cherokee Dialysis Center0.19 miles away53 Echota Church Road Cherokee North Carolina 28719Dialysis Stations: 20 (828) 497-6866
- Sylva Dialysis Center10.16 miles away655 Asheville Highway Sylva North Carolina 28779Dialysis Stations: 16 (828) 586-3340