Abercorn Rehabilitation Center

Abercorn Rehabilitation Center is located in Savannah, Georgia. The city has a multitude of options. Featuring an overall score of C, this is likely a solid nursing home. Savannah received a city grade of B, so there are other options in the city worth considering. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's profile is its stellar inspection grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection score. Its inspection score was far superior to its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A+. Our inspection grades are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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 government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another one of this nursing home's higher category scores was in the category of long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B+. It actually performed better than most facilities in this area. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. While it had 2.1 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was close to the middle of the pack due to it having more complicated patients.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care rating. This is not a very good score. Our short-term care ratings are important for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Given its poor grade in this category, we were not stunned to find that this facility provided far fewer registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 46.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these relatively poor statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.

The final category we rated was nursing, which was this nursing home's worst area. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is certainly concerning. Our nursing rating includes a variety of subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility offered a meager 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident each day. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.