Zebulon Rehabilitation Center

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ inspection grade. This score is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this nursing home's other strengths is its high-end long-term care grade. We awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of A. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 87.11656 percent of its residents. This is a bit lower than we expected. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Additionally, this facility also was given favorable short-term care scores this year. Indeed, we awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. We weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final category we analyzed is nursing. We awarded this nursing home a decent grade in this area, with a grade of C. While this isn't as dominant as some of this facility's other scores, it is still not a terrible score. In determining a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the amount of time nurses are with residents and the levels of training of those nurses. This place provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat alarming figure which is well below the national average. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider some quality-focused metrics. We look at the percent of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care, since superior care can reduce these issues.