Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center is one of nine available facilities in Augusta, Georgia. We awarded it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road grade. This grade is not too far off the city grade for Augusta, which is a B-. The best part of this nursing home's report card was its exemplary inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.
Get our free e-book to learn all about your senior care options.
Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
Get pricing and details on Augusta senior living options.
Get PricingQuick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Hemodialysis
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
Get our free e-book to learn all about your senior care options.
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection grade. Its inspection grade was far better than its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave it an A+. Inspection ratings are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Long-term Care Quality
We also awarded this facility a decent score in the area of long-term care, with a grade of B-. Our long-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of care. This includes a vast range of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 95.89041 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Does this page answer your questions about Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center?
Nurse Quality
Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing score. We gave this nursing home a grade of D. Our nursing score is primarily tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This place provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these datapoints to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
The next category we analyzed is short-term care. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this category, which is a poor score. This is certainly a significant disappointment. Our short-term care grade is often used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Based on its weak score in this category, we were not stunned to find that this nursing home offers significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center, 17.11% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0.34% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are often the result of lower quality nursing care. More supervision minimizes the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center, 2.96% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely the result of poor nursing care. Better hygiene protocols can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center, 7.45% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center, 7.97% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0.38% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center, 90.51% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center, 25.31% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center, 35.55% of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who retained mobility levels. Some experts would argue that mobility is vital to residents' mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center, 35.55% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center, 14.33% of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Azalea Health and Rehabilitation Center, 87.02% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Augusta, GA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of D
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Augusta, Georgia has 8 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Au Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.67 miles away1120 15th Street Augusta Georgia 30912Voluntary non-profit - Other(706) 721-6569
- University HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.27 miles away1350 Walton Way Augusta Georgia 30901Government - Hospital District or Authority(706) 722-9011
- Doctors HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.25 miles away3651 Wheeler Road Augusta Georgia 30909Proprietary(706) 651-6008
- Dwight Eisenhower Amc (Ft Gordon)Acute Care - Department of Defense 6.69 miles away300 East Hospital Road Augusta Georgia 30905Department of Defense(706) 787-5811
- Aiken Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 16.49 miles away302 University Parkway Aiken South Carolina 29801Proprietary(803) 641-5900
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc New Bailie1.56 miles away1717 Walton Way Augusta Georgia 30904Dialysis Stations: 29 (706) 481-6920
- Rai Deans Bridge1.65 miles away2841 Deans Bridge Road Augusta Georgia 30906Dialysis Stations: 21 (706) 790-5909
- Nephrology Center of South Augusta1.84 miles away1631 Gordon Hwy Store 1b Augusta Georgia 30906Dialysis Stations: 19 (706) 790-8300
- Ara South Augusta Clinic1.84 miles away1649 Gordon Highway Augusta Georgia 30906CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 30 (706) 796-1236
- Ara Augusta LLC2.79 miles away1000 Telfair St Augusta Georgia 30901CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 30 (706) 774-0130
- Wylds Road Dialysis3.07 miles away1815 Wylds Road Augusta Georgia 30909Dialysis Stations: 20 (706) 733-0522
- South Augusta Dialysis Clinic, LLC3.94 miles away3206 Peach Orchard Road Augusta Georgia 30906Dialysis Stations: 16 (706) 798-5774
- Fmc of Augusta Inc4.37 miles away1109 Medical Center Drive Building H Augusta Georgia 30909Dialysis Stations: 21 (706) 860-9220