Etowah Landing

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

The next highest area we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. Our long-term care ratings are more important for those in need of more traditional services related to activities of daily living. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinates 98.93617 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's next most favorable category is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a C. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

The last area we graded is nursing. It received a lowly F for this area, which is a poor grade. This is certainly a major disappointment. Our nursing score analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This facility offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is quite a bit below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.