Legacy Transitional Care & Rehabilitation
460 Auburn Avenue n.e., Atlanta GA 30312 · (404) 523-1613 · 90.86% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Legacy Transitional Care & Rehabilitation is a large nursing home in Atlanta, Georgia. Sporting an overall rating of C, this is likely a solid facility. This grade isn't too far off the city grade for Atlanta, which is a B-. The best part of this nursing home's report card is its exemplary inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 186 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Long-term Care Quality
We also awarded this facility a positive grade in long-term care. This nursing home earned a grade of B+ in this category, which turns out to be one of our more impressive scores. For residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 61.30031 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 2.07 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
Next, we looked at the nursing category where we gave this nursing home an F. This is certainly not one of this facility's better areas. There are numerous subcategories included in this category. Most of the factors reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this measure.
Short-term Care Quality
The last category we rated is short-term care. It received an F for this area, which is a rock bottom score. This is clearly a major disappointment. Our short-term care ratings are vital for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. As you might expect, we learned that this nursing home offers substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical nursing home. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents that returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 32 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Legacy Transitional Care & Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that have had a fall resulting in serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often associated with a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this metric could be misleading for some facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term care residents taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Increased rates of depression could indicate a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better