A.g. Rhodes Home Wesley Woods
1819 Clifton Road, n.e., Atlanta GA 30329 · (404) 315-0900 · 89.06% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
A.g. Rhodes Home Wesley Woods is one of a host of options you can choose from in Atlanta, Georgia. This nursing home proved to be a grade A facility, which is a truly elite score. Not surprisingly, this turned out to be the highest graded nursing home in the city. If you scroll down, you can see this place's category grades, which are also strong.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 150 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out that this nursing home has received excellent government inspections recently. We awarded them an A in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to its first-rate assessment, this nursing home also received a dominant long-term care score, with a grade of A. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.31 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our third area, this nursing home was given a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in this category. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is considered to be a useful measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Remarkably, this nursing home offers its residents at least one and a half times as many physical therapist hours per week than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it fared as well as just about any facility in the nation in this area with 71.8 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this metric.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our last area, this facility was awarded an excellent nursing score. Although this was not as good as some of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of our stronger grades we offer. The nursing score weighs several factors, but the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is better than what is offered by most facilities. Lastly, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. It performed as well as any nursing home the state when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
A.g. Rhodes Home Wesley Woods Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This gauges the percentage of long-term care patients which have sustained UTI's. While more of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare between facilities due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are typically prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better