Appling Nursing and Rehabilitation Pavilion

Appling Nursing and Rehabilitation Pavilion is in Baxley, Georgia. The city has 16,084 people. After receiving an A overall grade, this facility has the distinction of being one of the top 25 nursing homes in Georgia. We also wanted to point out that this nursing home is located in a hospital. Typically, this means that more intensive healthcare services are available. Headlining this facility's exemplary report card is its long-term care score, which is addressed in the next section.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.73737 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid negative health outcomes for the elderly population. The last statistic we looked at was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.23 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the 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 an excellent sign.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. Nursing scores are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is better than what is offered by most facilities. Finally, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality measures we assessed. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is usually an indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by offering better nursing care and having a policy of moving patients more frequently.

The last category we scored proved to be this nursing home's worst category. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still awarded it a respectable grade of B- for our short-term care category. With our short-term care category, we strive to create a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.