Ghs Laurens County Memorial Subacute Unit

We also wanted to emphasize that this facility has received near flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this area. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also would like to emphasize the fact that this facility was awarded a top-shelf score of A in our short-term care area. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility also excelled in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of A-. Very few facilities received a better grade in this category. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this place 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 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to our fourth area, this facility also performed admirably in the nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area. This finalized a very impressive report card. In calculating a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the number of hours nurses commit to residents as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.