Habersham Home is located in Demorest, Georgia. This city has 7,042 people. With an overall rating of C, this looks like a solid 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. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's profile is its exemplary inspection grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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Habersham Home
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- 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 being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, we awarded this facility a grade of B in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our more impressive scores. For residents looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 79.64286 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly below what we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
The next area we graded was short-term care, where this nursing home received an F. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be more important for people in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Considering its abysmal rating in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this place offered far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home's least impressive area was nursing, which is the last area we looked at. It received a lowly F for this area. Even with a few solid scores in other areas, this score is nevertheless of a concern so we felt obligated to point it out. When calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses are caring for residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These scores hurt this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Habersham Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Habersham Home, 12.4% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Habersham Home, 3.57% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who have sustained a fall leading to severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Habersham Home, 0.36% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents that sustained a UTI. Although a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is difficult to compare different nursing homes due to reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Habersham Home, 18.96% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Habersham Home, 34.76% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Habersham Home, 6.18% of Patients
This is the percent of patients showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Habersham Home, 87.39% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Habersham Home, 16% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Habersham Home, 24.91% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Habersham Home, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Habersham Home, 24.91% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Habersham Home, 10.68% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Habersham Home, 53.46% of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with better rehabilitation services.