Western North Carolina Baptist Home

Western North Carolina Baptist Home is an average-sized non-profit facility located in Asheville, North Carolina. Sporting an overall grade of A, this facility is one of the most elite nursing homes we looked at. In our view, this place ought to be a wonderful choice for just about anybody. Headlining this facility's stellar report card is its short-term care score, which is addressed in the next section.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home is above the national average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in North Carolina in this area with 80 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home also received an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. The nursing grade analyzes many components, most of which are based on nursing hours. This facility boasts a really impressive 4.7 hours of nursing care per patient per day, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found at any facility. On top of providing high levels of care, this nursing home also performed well in some of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this facility was given a respectable long-term care score. Even though this was not nearly as strong as a few of its other scores, this is truly not a major area of concern. In determining our long-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's personal care services. On top of providing above average levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 96.666664 percent of its patients. This statistic is better than the majority of nursing homes. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had just 1 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a significantly lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.