Harborview Health Systems Jesup

Harborview Health Systems Jesup is a facility located in Jesup, Georgia, a city with 24,228 people. We gave this facility an overall grade of B. A score of this caliber requires solid marks in most areas. With no A rated nursing homes in the city, this is actually the best nursing home in Jesup. This facility is better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of our major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home 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+. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home really excelled in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Very few facilities performed more favorably in this category. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize negative health outcomes for the elderly population. The last statistic we looked at was the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 1.81 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is middle of the road in this area.

This nursing home's third most favorable area was short-term care. We gave it a C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the road score in this area. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 43.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

The final category we looked at was nursing. This facility was given a C in this category. The nursing grade is based on several data points, however, the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provides only 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below average. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. We look at the percent of patients who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care, since superior care tends to reduce these problems.