Dekalb County Rehab & Nursing

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it earned an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. In determining our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is typically a meaningful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home an A. Nursing grades are largely based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection rating. Inspections turned out to be one of its best grades. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of B+. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

The last category we assessed was long-term care. We awarded this facility one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a B. Even though this was not as strong as some of its other grades, it is still a positive grade. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.42696 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.