Emanuel County Nursing Home

Emanuel County Nursing Home is a small hospital-based nursing home located in Swainsboro, Georgia. It looks like this nursing home is among the most impressive nursing homes we assessed. A grade of this caliber requires first-rate scores across the board. We simply can't say enough great things about this nursing home. Headlining this nursing home's remarkable report card is its nursing rating, which is addressed in the next section.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Nursing grades are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This particular facility provided 4.9 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which was among the higher figures we found. Lastly, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any facility the nation in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This facility also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the rare nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next area we looked at was long-term care. Contributing to its elite profile, this nursing home also excelled in this category. In fact, we gave it a of A in the category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. On top of offering very favorable levels of nurse staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.94 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care, where this nursing home was given a C. This actually ended up being this nursing home's weakest category. This is still not a terrible score. Short-term care grades are important for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing. This includes a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 21.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.