Comer Health and Rehabilitation is in Comer, Georgia, a city with 4,531 people. This proved to be a quality facility, with an overall grade of B. This nursing home truly has plenty of good features. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.
Comer Health and Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Other
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home really excelled in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Not many nursing homes performed better in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.29578 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. There are quite a few factors included in this category. Most of the subcategories reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. While this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this area. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning residents more frequently.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to our final category, this nursing home was given a respectable short-term care grade of C. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. We weren't able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Comer Health and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Comer Health and Rehabilitation, 10.62% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Comer Health and Rehabilitation, 3.1% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Comer Health and Rehabilitation, 3.23% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a measure of nursing care . UTI's are often the result of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic may be skewed for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Comer Health and Rehabilitation, 18.13% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Comer Health and Rehabilitation, 21.48% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically prescribed to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Comer Health and Rehabilitation, 5.43% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Some experts argue this is a measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Comer Health and Rehabilitation, 93.26% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Comer Health and Rehabilitation, 17.3% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and continence. Some experts argue that this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Comer Health and Rehabilitation, 23.05% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels. Many in the industry would argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' physical and mental well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Comer Health and Rehabilitation, 1.51 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Comer Health and Rehabilitation, 23.05 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Comer Health and Rehabilitation, 11.54 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Comer Health and Rehabilitation, 69.88% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Elbert Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.39 miles away4 Medical Drive Elberton Georgia 30635Government - Hospital District or Authority(706) 213-2535
Nearby Dialysis
- Elberton Dialysis Facility Inc11.04 miles away894 Elbert Street Elberton Georgia 30635Dialysis Stations: 18 (706) 283-9833
- Us Renal Care,Inc14.66 miles away611 Cook Street Royston Georgia 30662CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (706) 245-0817
- Athens East Dialysis19.46 miles away2026 S Milledge Ave, Street a2 Athens Georgia 30605Dialysis Stations: 19 (706) 549-3297
- Lake Hartwell Kidney Center19.86 miles away98 Arthur Street Hartwell Georgia 30643Dialysis Stations: 13 (706) 376-9600