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River Brook Healthcare Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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River Brook Healthcare Center's website

390 Sweat Street,
Homerville GA 31634

(912) 487-5328

80.97% estimated occupancy ¹

River Brook Healthcare Center is the lone nursing home we found in Homerville, Georgia. With a terrible overall grade of F, this facility isn't high on our list. This nursing home is really as bad as it gets. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Hospice
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Home Making
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
Dentistry
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Podiatry
Mental Health
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Optometry
Audiology
Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

Although this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that area, which is one of our better scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Long-term Care Quality

We were also pleasantly surprised to find that this nursing home received a solid long-term care grade in our assessment. We awarded it a C in that area. Long-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of nursing services. This means a vast range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 93.772896 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

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Nurse Quality

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. Our nursing score is mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Short-term Care Quality

The last category we scored is short-term care, where this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel score in this area also. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area, which is definitely a major concern. Our short-term care scores are important for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Considering its weak rating in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this place provides substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.7 percent of its patients returning home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

River Brook Healthcare Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In River Brook Healthcare Center, 8.03% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure indicates the percent of long-term patients who suffered from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of a facility's nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In River Brook Healthcare Center, 2.2% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are often the result of lower levels of patient supervision. Additional nurse staffing can reduce the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In River Brook Healthcare Center, 1.98% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to inadequate hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In River Brook Healthcare Center, 37.89% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents which are prescribed antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically required. However, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these medications due to having more patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In River Brook Healthcare Center, 30.34% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure measures the percentage of long-term stay patients taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In River Brook Healthcare Center, 0% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents who are demonstrating signs of depression. Increased levels of depression could be a sign worse patient care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In River Brook Healthcare Center, 92.4% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In River Brook Healthcare Center, 23.36% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In River Brook Healthcare Center, 20.9% of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

In River Brook Healthcare Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

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

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In River Brook Healthcare Center, 20.9% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In River Brook Healthcare Center, 21.14% of Patients

This is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge short-term care.