Georgia Manor Nursing Home

This facility received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this area. Our inspection ratings are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this facility's other strengths is its high-end long-term care score. We gave them one of our best scores in that category, with a grade of A-. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a dangerous ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. Our nursing rating features numerous factors. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This place averages just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is well below average. Finally, nursing ratings also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

Moving on to the last category, we gave this facility a D in short-term care. This was the facility's weakest category rating. Naturally, this score hurt the nursing home's overall profile to a certain degree. In forming our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. We found that this place was subpar in two of the key staffing metrics we assessed. In fact, it offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.