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Appling Healthcare

  • Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A-minus
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Appling Healthcare's website

163 East Tollison Street,
Baxley GA 31513

(912) 367-9841

75.94% estimated occupancy 1

With an address in Baxley, Georgia, Appling Healthcare is the sole facility we identified in the area. Sporting an overall score of A-, this is undoubtedly a high quality facility. This is just about as good of a place as you're going to find. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong report card was its long-term care score. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph

Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Other
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Pharmacy
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray
  • Recreational Therapy

Awards

Top Nursing Home in Georgia badge

Top Nursing Home in Georgia Awards 2020

Top Nursing Home in Georgia badge

Top Nursing Home in Georgia Awards 2021

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2021)
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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of long-term care, where it earned a grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 98.9899 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a life or death ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

This facility also received a virtually flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that area with an A+. This is one of the few places to receive multiple A+'s. Inspection ratings are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't 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.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Nursing ratings are largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving patients more frequently.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

Turning to the last area, this facility was given a decent short-term care rating. While this wasn't as strong as several of its other grades, this is still not a bad grade. In forming these short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Sep 22

Appling Healthcare Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-minus

In Appling Healthcare, 10.37% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term residents that suffered from pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are an indicator of a facility's nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In Appling Healthcare, 3.17% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who suffered falls resulting in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In Appling Healthcare, 3.19% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections could be associated with poor hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: C

In Appling Healthcare, 18.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat a variety of medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Appling Healthcare, 21.34% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-plus

In Appling Healthcare, 5.28% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Appling Healthcare, 93.36% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Appling Healthcare, 16.65% Percentage of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and eating. Many argue that this is a measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In Appling Healthcare, 20.73% Percentage of Residents

This is the percent of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: D

In Appling Healthcare, 1.6 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In Appling Healthcare, 20.73 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-plus

In Appling Healthcare, 11.5 Percentage of Patients

This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to assess patient well-being during rehabilitation.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Appling HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0 miles away163 E Tollison Street Baxley Georgia 31513Government - Hospital District or Authority(912) 367-9841
  • Jeff Davis HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 16.22 miles away163 South Tallahassee Street Hazlehurst Georgia 31539Government - Hospital District or Authority(912) 375-7781
  • Bacon County HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 17.29 miles away302 South Wayne Street Alma Georgia 31510Voluntary non-profit - Other(912) 632-8961

Nearby Dialysis

  • Baxley Dialysis0.11 miles away539 Fair Street Baxley Georgia 31513CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 13 (912) 366-0202
  • Dialysis Facility of Alma Inc17.33 miles away415 South Dixon Street Alma Georgia 31510Dialysis Stations: 17 (912) 632-8010