Habersham Home

Nursing Home

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Habersham Home's website

Highway 441 North, Box 37,
Demorest GA 30535

(706) 754-2161

81.54% estimated occupancy ¹

Habersham Home is located in Demorest, Georgia. This city has 7,042 people. With an overall rating of B+, this looks like a very good nursing home. We also wanted to point out that this place is based in a hospital. Typically, this indicates that more intensive healthcare services are offered. The best part of this nursing home's impressive profile is its inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next section

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Other
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Tracheotomy Care
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Pharmacy
Laboratory
Optometry
Colostomy Care

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Facility Inspections

In addition to faring well overall, this facility received nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it received one of our best scores in that category with an A+. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

Contributing to this nursing home's list of accomplishments, it also was given a first-rate long-term care score. We gave them a dominant strong of A in this area. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 90 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be slightly less than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

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Short-term Care Quality

The next category we assessed is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. We weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final item we considered in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

The last area we graded is nursing. We awarded this facility a decent grade in this category, with a grade of B-. Although this was not on par with several of this facility's other grades, it is nevertheless not a terrible score. When determining a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the amount of time nurses are with patients as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This particular facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is far below average. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Habersham Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Habersham Home, 10.62% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This measures the percent of long-term care residents which are suffering from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Habersham Home, 3.1% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents that had a fall resulting in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Habersham Home, 3.23% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often caused by worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic could also be misleading for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Habersham Home, 18.13% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for many conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Habersham Home, 21.48% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Habersham Home, 5.43% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Habersham Home, 93.26% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Habersham Home, 17.3% Percentage of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of deterioration of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Habersham Home, 23.05% Percentage of Residents

This tells you the percent of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Habersham Home, 1.51 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Habersham Home, 23.05 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Habersham Home, 11.54 Percentage of Patients

Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess patient care during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Habersham Home, 69.88% Percentage of Resident

This indicates the percent of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living often correlates with better rehabilitation services.