Forsyth Care Center

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection grade. In fact, its inspection score was far better than its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it an A-. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

One of this facility's more respectable category scores was in the category of short-term care. This turned out to be its second best category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is often a fair measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. It is still important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 5.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. Our nursing score is based on many datapoints. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

The final area we rated was long-term care, proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this area. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 76.190475 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.