Habersham Home

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.

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.

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.

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.