Folkston Park Care and Rehabilitation Center
36261 North Okefenokee Drive, Folkston GA 31537 · (912) 496-7396 · 86.73% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Folkston Park Care and Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home located in Folkston, Georgia. This city has a population of 10,097 people. Sporting an overall grade of D, this is a well below average nursing home. As far as we can see, we'd struggle to recommend this place. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 92 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we didn't grade this facility favorably overall, we did give it an excellent score in the area of inspections, where it received an A. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
The second highest area we awarded this facility in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.22 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care score. This is not one of our better scores. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is generally a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 43.2 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our last area, this nursing home really didn't perform well in this area either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is about as bad as it gets. Our nursing score is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This place averaged only 2.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is an alarmingly low total. To pair with its below average totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home had really bad scores in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing falls which led to serious injury. This facility was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is concerning in light of the fact that so many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of earning a poor nursing score.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Folkston Park Care and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many medical conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is key to maintaining the physical health of nursing home 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 care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better