Anderson Mill Health and Rehabilitation Center

Anderson Mill Health and Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home in Austell, Georgia. Featuring an overall grade of B-, this looks like a solid nursing home. You could certainly do worse than this facility. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is long-term care, which is addressed in the next section.

This facility really excelled in long-term care. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category. This saved its overall profile. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 89.920425 percent of its residents. This is a bit less than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. The last statistic we looked at is the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 3.08 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this area, this number may be skewed for some nursing homes due to the preexisting medical conditions of residents.

This facility's second best category grade came in the area of government inspections. In that category, we gave this facility a B. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this nursing home's higher category grades came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. Our short-term care grades are critical for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country in this area with 54.3 percent of its residents able to return home. This is a higher rate than most nursing homes.

Turning to the next category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D for the area of nursing. This is the nursing home's worst category grade. Of course, this score pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. Our nursing score is primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.