Harrington Park Health and Rehabilitation
511 Pleasant Home Road, Augusta GA 30907 · (762) 222-7200 · 90.51% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Harrington Park Health and Rehabilitation is one of several nursing home options to select from in Augusta, Georgia. We gave this nursing home a strong overall score of B+. In fact, this is actually ranked among the three highest graded nursing homes in Augusta. Based on all of the relevant data, you could do much worse than this facility. The best part of this nursing home's strong profile is its inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 58 Beds
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Non profit - Other
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to performing well overall, this facility also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Therefore, it received one of our best scores in that category with a grade of A+. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't 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.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home was awarded strong marks in the category of short-term care as well. Consequently, we gave it one of our best scores in that category with a area of A-. Our short-term care scores are crucial for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Remarkably, this place provides its residents at least 1.5 times as many physical therapist hours per week than the typical facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in this area with 63.5 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home was awarded a favorable long-term care score as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that area with a grade of B+. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. While we determined this nursing home has a favorable amount of nursing hours provided by aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccination rate to be somewhat below average. This nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 85.333336 percent of its patients. This is one statistic we'd love to see this nursing home improve. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.59 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Nurse Quality
The next category we analyzed is nursing, in which this facility received a grade of C. While this proved to be its weakest category score, this is still not a bad grade. Our nursing score looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.1 hours per resident per day. This is well above average. Finally, we baked a few quality measures into our nursing ratings. This nursing home was relatively weak in two of the metrics we considered, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are often decent measures of the quality of nursing care offered.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Harrington Park Health and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term stay patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of quality of care.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that sustained a fall resulting in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often linked to poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic could be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for a variety of medical conditions, including cognitive disorders. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of residents who are showing symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with better rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better