Wrightsville Nursing Home

To go along with its relatively modest overall score, we gave this nursing home an A+ for its inspection grade. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's long-term care grade turns out to be one of its best features. The facility was given a grade of B- in this category. Our long-term care scores are vital for prospective residents in need of personal care. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 98.91304 percent of its residents, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

As it turns out, this nursing home only received a grade of D for its short-term care score, which is well below average in this category. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this place provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average nursing home. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below average.

The final area we scored is nursing, which is this nursing home's weakest area. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category, which is obviously concerning. There are numerous criteria within this category. Many of the data points are tied to nurse staffing. This nursing home provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is far below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these data points to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.