A.g. Rhodes Home, - Cobb
900 Wylie Road, Marietta GA 30067 · (770) 427-8727 · 88.3% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
A.g. Rhodes Home, - Cobb is a large non-profit nursing home located in Marietta, Georgia. We gave this facility an overall grade of B-. A score of this caliber requires some decent scores. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Marietta. The best part of this place's profile was its exemplary inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 130 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. Inspection grades are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, we gave this facility a grade of B in our long-term care category. This is one of our more impressive grades. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. The last datapoint we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.67 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a decent grade in the area of short-term care, with a B-. Short-term care grades are typically employed to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. It performed respectably in this area with 46.3 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
The final category we graded was nursing, which ended up being this facility's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a D in this category. Sadly, this grade pulled down the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. Nursing scores are mostly based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. We do not think quantity of care was the reason for this facility's poor nursing rating. With 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this place actually surpassed the national average. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this facility was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade substantially.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
A.g. Rhodes Home, - Cobb Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care patients who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a solid barometer of a facility's nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure measures the percent of long-term patients who experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indication of lower quality nursing care. However, this statistic could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some experts argue that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and eating.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks 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 tells you the percent of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better