Elberta Health Care
419 Elberta Road, Warner Robins GA 31093 · (478) 923-3146 · 72.27% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Elberta Health Care is located in Warner Robins, Georgia. This is a good facility with a B- overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Warner Robins. Based on our ratings, there are certainly much worse places out there. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's report card is its remarkable inspection rating, which we will address in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 66 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To go along with its decent overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. This is far better than the facility's overall score. Our inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also performed favorably in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Very few facilities performed better in this area. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Even though we determined this nursing home had a favorable quantity of nursing hours provided by aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccination rate to be somewhat lower than we expected. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 89.94709 percent of its patients. This is a figure we'd really like to see this nursing home improve on. The last statistic we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 3.29 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this area, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities due to the preexisting medical conditions of patients.
Nurse Quality
Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. Our nursing score analyzes several components, many of which are based on nursing hours. In this nursing home's case, quantity of care does not appear to be the problem. According to its CMS data, this facility provided an average of 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was above the national average. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this nursing home did not fare as well in the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place was above the national average in both metrics. This is not a good sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics dragged down this facility's nursing score significantly.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the last area, this facility really didn't fare well. With an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is this facility's worst category. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is frequently a useful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we discovered that this place provided less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 30.7 percent of its residents returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Elberta Health Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients who had a fall which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term patients who are given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications aren't medically required. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Many in the industry argue that this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the decline of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were able to retain mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to preserving the physical health of patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better