Eatonton Health and Rehabilitation

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. 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.

We also gave this facility a decent score in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. In determining our long-term care scores, we size up the assistance with daily living received by the nursing home's residents. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 95.07389 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. Nursing ratings are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a relatively low total compared to most facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

Turning to the next area, this nursing home was given a decent short-term care score of C. With our short-term care rating, we seek to create a fair measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. It doesn't look like this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below average.