Calhoun Health Care Center

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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1387 Highway 41 North,
Calhoun GA 30701

(706) 629-1289

78.29% estimated occupancy ¹

Calhoun Health Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Calhoun, Georgia. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a very poor nursing home. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Calhoun. The city has just one other nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation

Specialized Services

Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Although we gave this nursing home a horrible overall grade, we gave it a grade of A- for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Inspection grades are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Long-term Care Quality

We awarded this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care grade and that actually ended up being its second most favorable score. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to resident care. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 67.02128 percent of its patients. This is multiple points less than average. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.

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Short-term Care Quality

The third category we analyzed was short-term care, where this facility received an F. Our short-term care grades are crucial for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Nurse Quality

Switching gears to our next category, this facility really didn't fare well here either. Due to a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is just about as terrible as it gets. The nursing score includes several subcategories, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided a meager 0.3 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-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Calhoun Health Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Calhoun Health Care Center, 10.37% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often caused by residents staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Calhoun Health Care Center, 3.17% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are often caused by lower quality nursing care. More supervision reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Calhoun Health Care Center, 3.19% of Patients had UTIs

This statistic measures the percent of long-term care patients who experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's could be an indicator of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Calhoun Health Care Center, 18.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term residents who are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of residents suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Calhoun Health Care Center, 21.34% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of patients who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Calhoun Health Care Center, 5.28% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Calhoun Health Care Center, 93.36% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Calhoun Health Care Center, 16.65% Percentage of Patients

This is the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate deterioration of a resident's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Calhoun Health Care Center, 20.73% Percentage of Residents

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that maintained mobility. Many would argue that the ability to move around is vital to residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Calhoun Health Care Center, 1.6 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Calhoun Health Care Center, 20.73 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Calhoun Health Care Center, 11.5 Percentage of Patients

This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Calhoun Health Care Center, 69.89% Percentage of Resident

Measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation services.