Gracewood Nsg Facility(Unit 9)

Gracewood Nsg Facility(Unit 9) is the sole option we found in Gracewood, Georgia. This facility is ranked among the most impressive facilities we found. It received one of the best ratings that we offer. In fact, this nursing home has the prestigious distinction of being one of the 25 best nursing homes in Georgia. Headlining this place's stellar report card is its long-term care score, which you can find in the next paragraph.

We also found that this nursing home excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an A+ in this category. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination record was top notch as well. In fact, this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.7 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.

Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular facility provided 7.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which was among the more impressive totals we found. Lastly, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, it fared as well as any facility the country in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided.

The next area we assessed was short-term care. This nursing home received a better than average short-term care grade in our assessment, with a grade of B-. Although this is not quite as good as many of its other grades, this is nevertheless a respectable grade in this area. In crafting our short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.