Habersham Home

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Habersham Home's website

Highway 441 North, Box 37,
Demorest GA 30535

(706) 754-2161

87.14% 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 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

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe 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

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite long-term care grade. We gave them one of our more impressive scores in that area, with a grade of A-. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 87.14859 percent of its residents. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

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Nurse Quality

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of C in this category is by no means a bad score. Our nursing score consists of several factors, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a low total compared to most facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it scored well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Short-term Care Quality

This nursing home's worst category was short-term care, which is the last area we assessed. For this category, we awarded this facility a D. Our short-term care ratings are presumably more meaningful for folks needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Habersham Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Habersham Home, 10.37% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Habersham Home, 3.17% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a fall which caused severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Habersham Home, 3.19% of Patients had UTIs

This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who experienced a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be a sign of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic may be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Habersham Home, 18.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for many medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Habersham Home, 21.34% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Habersham Home, 5.28% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some experts would argue that this is a measure of quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Habersham Home, 93.36% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Habersham Home, 16.65% Percentage of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and bathing. Many believe this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Habersham Home, 20.73% Percentage of Residents

This indicates the percent of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Habersham Home, 1.6 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to maintaining the physical health of nursing home patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Habersham Home, 20.73 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Habersham Home, 11.5 Percentage of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Habersham Home, 69.89% Percentage of Resident

This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living usually correlates with successful rehabilitation.