Dawson Health and Rehabilitation

Dawson Health and Rehabilitation is a nursing home in Dawson, Georgia, which has 8,357 people. It looks like this is a very good nursing home. We gave this it an overall grade of B+, which is very good rating. This facility truly has plenty working in its favor. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.

One of the reasons this place turned out to be a great nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity 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.

We also gave this nursing home a grade of A- for our long-term care score. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 97.04642 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. The last statistic we looked at was the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 2.15 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. Our nursing score assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This place provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home was awarded a respectable short-term care score. Even though this is not nearly as good as some of its other grades, this is really nothing to be ashamed of. In calculating these short-term care grades, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 35.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this is below average.