With an address in Smyrna, Georgia, Delmar Gardens of Smyrna is the lone nursing home located there. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is one of our higher grades. Based on our ratings, this nursing home is simply as good as it gets. The best part of this facility's impressive report card is its inspection score. We discuss inspections in the next section
Delmar Gardens of Smyrna
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Optometry
- Aquatic Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out that this nursing home has received near flawless inspections recently. We awarded them an A+ in this area. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Adding to its top-shelf resume, this nursing home also was awarded a dominant short-term care score, with a score of A-. With our short-term care category, we seek to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning our next category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for its long-term care score. This is a first-rate score. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 97.85933 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
The next area we graded was nursing, in which this facility was awarded a C. This turned out to be this nursing home's worst category. This is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Delmar Gardens of Smyrna Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Delmar Gardens of Smyrna, 10.62% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often caused by patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Delmar Gardens of Smyrna, 3.1% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are often caused by poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Delmar Gardens of Smyrna, 3.23% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint can be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Delmar Gardens of Smyrna, 18.13% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Unfortunately, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Delmar Gardens of Smyrna, 21.48% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Delmar Gardens of Smyrna, 5.43% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Delmar Gardens of Smyrna, 93.26% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Delmar Gardens of Smyrna, 17.3% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Delmar Gardens of Smyrna, 23.05% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Delmar Gardens of Smyrna, 1.51 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Delmar Gardens of Smyrna, 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 Delmar Gardens of Smyrna, 11.54 Percentage of Patients
This indicates 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 Delmar Gardens of Smyrna, 69.88% Percentage of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Wellstar Cobb HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.87 miles away3950 Austell Rd Austell Georgia 30106Voluntary non-profit - Other(770) 732-4000
- Piedmont HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.74 miles away1968 Peachtree Rd Nw Atlanta Georgia 30309Voluntary non-profit - Private(404) 605-5000
- Wellstar Kennestone HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.96 miles away677 Church Street Marietta Georgia 30060Government - Hospital District or Authority(770) 793-5000
- Emory University Hospital MidtownAcute Care Hospitals 9.53 miles away550 Peachtree Street, Ne Atlanta Georgia 30308Voluntary non-profit - Private(404) 686-4411
- Northside HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.03 miles away1000 Johnson Ferry Road, Ne Atlanta Georgia 30342Voluntary non-profit - Private(404) 851-8000
- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish RiteChildrens 10.05 miles away1001 Johnson Ferry Road Atlanta Georgia 30342Voluntary non-profit - Other(404) 785-5252
- Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta, IncAcute Care Hospitals 10.21 miles away5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta Georgia 30342Voluntary non-profit - Private(678) 843-5720
- Wellstar Atlanta Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.3 miles away303 Parkway Drive, Ne Atlanta Georgia 30312Proprietary(404) 265-4000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Medical Care Highlands2.09 miles away2700 Highlands Parkway Ste A Smyrna Georgia 30082Dialysis Stations: 21 (678) 303-5064
- Cobb Dialysis4.94 miles away3865 Medical Park Drive Austell Georgia 30106CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (770) 941-3898
- Fresenius Kidney Care Mableton5.3 miles away1380 Veterans Memorial Hwy Sw Mableton Georgia 30126Dialysis Stations: 17 (770) 485-1773
- Reliant Renal Care Georgia, LLC5.73 miles away1720 Powder Springs Rd Marietta Georgia 30064Dialysis Stations: 17 (678) 402-6048
- Colonial Springs Dialysis5.99 miles away2840 East West Connector Suite 350 Austell Georgia 30106CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 15 (770) 222-2236
- Davita Center Hill Dialysis6.51 miles away2045 Donald Lee Hollowell Pkwy Nw Nw Atlanta Georgia 30318Dialysis Stations: 13 (404) 792-1611
- Us Renal Care Cobb Renal Center6.61 miles away506 Roswell Street Suite 100 Marietta Georgia 30060Dialysis Stations: 16 (770) 426-5110
- Southstar Adamsville Dialysis6.62 miles away3651 Bakers Ferry Rd Sw Atlanta Georgia 30331CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (404) 472-1856