Fort Gaines Health and Rehab is in Fort Gaines, Georgia. This city has 2,388 people. This proved to be a highly rated facility, with an overall grade of B+. Based on our ratings, you can do much worse than this place. Fortunately, this place did not have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. Additional information about these categories can be found below.
Fort Gaines Health and Rehab
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Grade: B-plus
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Hemodialysis
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Facility Inspections
Grade: A-plus
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Grade: A
This nursing home received impressive scores in the area of long-term care as well. Indeed, we gave it one of our most superb scores in that area with a score of A. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.765366 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid negative health outcomes for the elderly population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Nurse Quality
Grade: B
Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. In calculating our nursing ratings, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
Grade: C
The final area we rated was short-term care. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of C. This proved to be this nursing home's weakest area. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fort Gaines Health and Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
Grade: A-plus
In Fort Gaines Health and Rehab, 10.37% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
Grade: A-plus
In Fort Gaines Health and Rehab, 3.17% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that have had a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care. Additional nurse staffing can reduce the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
Grade: A+
In Fort Gaines Health and Rehab, 3.19% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely the result of nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Additional nurse staffing can limit the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
Grade: A
In Fort Gaines Health and Rehab, 18.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used for a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
Grade: B
In Fort Gaines Health and Rehab, 21.34% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly used to treat patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
Grade: A-minus
In Fort Gaines Health and Rehab, 5.28% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents exhibiting depressive symptoms. High levels of depression could be an indicator lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Grade: B
In Fort Gaines Health and Rehab, 93.36% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Grade: C
In Fort Gaines Health and Rehab, 16.65% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Some believe that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Grade: A-minus
In Fort Gaines Health and Rehab, 20.73% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
Grade: B-minus
In Fort Gaines Health and Rehab, 1.6 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Grade: C
In Fort Gaines Health and Rehab, 20.73 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Grade: F
In Fort Gaines Health and Rehab, 69.89% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Lifebrite Community Hospital of EarlyCritical Access Hospitals 16.81 miles away11740 Columbia Street Blakely Georgia 39823Voluntary non-profit - Private(229) 723-4241
- Southwest Georgia Regional Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 19.38 miles away361 Randolph Street Cuthbert Georgia 39840Government - Hospital District or Authority(229) 732-2181
Nearby Dialysis
- Bagby Dialysis, LLC13.45 miles away671 Ozark Road Abbeville Alabama 36310Dialysis Stations: 10 (334) 585-0131
- Dialysis Clinic, Inc. - Blakely16.91 miles away11135 Columbia Street Blakely Georgia 39823CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (229) 723-5054
- Renal Treatment Centers Southeast Lp18.92 miles away1218 S Eulaula Ave, Suite 1234 Eufaula Alabama 36027Dialysis Stations: 8 (334) 687-7583
