Azalealand Nursing Home
2040 Colonial Drive, Savannah GA 31406 · (912) 354-2752 · 69.43% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Azalealand Nursing Home is an average-sized nursing home in Savannah, Georgia. This is a good nursing home with a B overall. This was right in line with the city grade in Savannah. Even in a city of 11 other nursing homes, this facility looks like a respectable choice. The best part of this nursing home's impressive profile is its inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next section
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 107 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Not many facilities performed better in that category. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Adding to its profile, this nursing home also earned a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this area. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 82.16783 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be a bit less than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.
Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. Our nursing score is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing scores also include quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator of how carefully a place's nursing staff is tending to its patients. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and superior safety protocols are used.
Short-term Care Quality
The final area we looked at is short-term care, which is this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this area. Unfortunately, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. With our short-term care rating, we strive to forge a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. It appears that this nursing home was subpar in many staffing metrics we focus on. The facility supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 21.7 percent of its residents returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Azalealand Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have experienced a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure gauges the percent of long-term stay residents who had a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of residents showing signs of depression. High levels of depression could reveal a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and eating. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who maintained mobility. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is important for residents' physical and mental health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better