Abercorn Rehabilitation Center
11800 Abercorn Street, Savannah GA 31419 · (912) 925-4402 · 84.1% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
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.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 100 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
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.
Long-term Care Quality
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.
Short-term Care Quality
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.
Nurse Quality
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.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Abercorn Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term care patients who suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a fall which resulted in major injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom. Some experts would argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better