Green Acres Health and Rehabilitation is a nursing home located in Milledgeville, Georgia, which has 44,250 people. We gave this facility an F, which is really a bottom of the barrel score in our grading scheme. If you are not happy with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Milledgeville. The city has just three other nursing homes. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was long-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
Green Acres Health and Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Other
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Long-term Care Quality
Even though we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it earned a more respectable long-term care rating this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that area, which was the closest thing to a bright spot we can find for this facility. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 97.17742 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also didn't fare terribly in the category of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a C in that area, which ended up being among its more favorable grades. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.
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Nurse Quality
We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. The nursing category assesses many factors, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Facility Inspections
Moving on the final category of inspections, this facility fared very poorly. It received an F in our inspection category. This is our most heavily weighted category in our scoring system. For nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility was hit with 2 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed significant government fines recently totaling over $100,000. This usually means that a facility's bad performance spanned several years.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Green Acres Health and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Green Acres Health and Rehabilitation, 10.37% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that have pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Green Acres Health and Rehabilitation, 3.17% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who have experienced falls which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Green Acres Health and Rehabilitation, 3.19% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents which experienced a UTI. While more infections may reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Green Acres Health and Rehabilitation, 18.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term stay patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Green Acres Health and Rehabilitation, 21.34% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic measures the percent of long-term care residents who were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Green Acres Health and Rehabilitation, 5.28% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who are showing depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression may be a sign a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Green Acres Health and Rehabilitation, 93.36% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Green Acres Health and Rehabilitation, 16.65% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom. Some experts would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Green Acres Health and Rehabilitation, 20.73% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who remained mobile levels. Many argue that mobility is critical to patients mental and physical health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Green Acres Health and Rehabilitation, 20.73 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Green Acres Health and Rehabilitation, 11.5 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Green Acres Health and Rehabilitation, 69.89% Percentage of Resident
Measures the percentage of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Milledgeville, GA
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Milledgeville, Georgia has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Navicent Health BaldwinAcute Care Hospitals 2.34 miles away821 North Cobb Street Milledgeville Georgia 31061Proprietary(478) 454-3550
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita Inc Milledgeville1.97 miles away400 South Wayne Street Milledgeville Georgia 31061Dialysis Stations: 12 (478) 453-9489
- Dsi Milledgeville Dialysis2.5 miles away411 North Jefferson Street Milledgeville Georgia 31061Dialysis Stations: 17 (478) 453-0964
- Baldwin Dialysis Center2.76 miles away1310 North Columbia Street Milledgeville Georgia 31061Dialysis Stations: 20 (478) 454-1271
- Dialysis Center of Milledgeville2.87 miles away1520 N. Columbia Street Suite 100 Milledgeville Georgia 31061CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (478) 414-0123
- Us Renal Care Gray Dialysis18.08 miles away1002 Boulder Drive Gray Georgia 31032Dialysis Stations: 18 (478) 986-3066