Eatonton Health and Rehabilitation

In addition to receiving an elite overall rating, this nursing home also received an A+ inspection rating. This grade is based on its recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. Our inspection grades are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

In addition, this nursing home also received favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we awarded them one of our stronger grades in that area, with a score of B. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 96.80851 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. The nursing score considers several factors. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving patients even once per day.

The last category we analyzed is this nursing home's weakest area. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still awarded it an acceptable grade of B- for short-term care. In calculating these short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.