Lee County Health and Rehabilitation

Lee County Health and Rehabilitation is the sole option we identified in Leesburg, Georgia. It looks like this is a fine facility. We gave it an overall grade of B, which is a respectable grade. As far as we can see, this nursing home is a solid choice for quite a few people. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

One of the reasons this ended up being a strong facility is that it received an impressive inspection score. In fact, inspections is its best category. In this area, we gave it an A+. Inspection scores are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that 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.

This nursing home was awarded an impressive long-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.32 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

We also gave this nursing home a decent grade in the category of short-term care, where it received a B-. In determining these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. 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. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home and found that this facility performed better here. In fact, this nursing home fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 52.5 percent of its patients returning home.

The final area we looked at is nursing. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is a fair grade in this category. The nursing grade analyzes several components, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.