Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation is located in Vidalia, Georgia, a city with a population of 16,646 people. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is very good rating. In fact, this nursing home is one of the top 50 facilities in Georgia. This nursing home also received very consistent ratings in each of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Other
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
To add to its dominant performance in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its long-term care grade. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.53488 percent of its patients, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our more positive grades in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
The next category we graded was nursing. In this category, we gave this facility an impressive grade of B. In calculating a facility's nursing rating, we look at the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This facility was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation, 12.96% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation, 5.12% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation, 7.04% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poor hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation, 14.42% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. These medications are used for treating a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation, 26.63% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who were administered antianxiety medication. These medications are used to treat patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation, 0% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation, 99.33% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation, 15.22% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and taking a bath. Some experts believe that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation, 15.72% of Residents
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term residents that were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation, 15.72% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation, 19.16% of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation, 70.54% of Resident
Measures the percent of short-term patients that saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Optim Medical Center - TattnallCritical Access Hospitals 19.86 miles away247 S Main Street Reidsville Georgia 30453Proprietary(912) 557-1000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fms Toombs County Dialysis0.05 miles away105 Melvin Page Dr Vidalia Georgia 30474Dialysis Stations: 11 (912) 537-0367
- Vidalia First Street Dialysis3.91 miles away906 E First Street Vidalia Georgia 30474Dialysis Stations: 21 (912) 538-8908