Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation
119 Meadows Parkway West, Vidalia GA 30474 · (912) 403-3400 · 92.66% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation is located in Vidalia, Georgia. This city has a total of 16,646 people. It looks like this nursing home is one of the most impressive facilities we assessed. A grade of this caliber requires superb marks across the board. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top 20 percent of all facilities in the nation. This facility also received strong grades in all of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 75 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Other
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being an elite nursing home overall, this facility excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Few places fared as well in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It doesn't look like we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Adding to its strong profile, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for the category. Our short-term care ratings are likely most important for individuals needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home improved its rating in this area by providing more than 1.5 times as many physical therapy hours than the average nursing home. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Georgia in this area with 68.5 percent of its residents returning home. For most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was given an impressive long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this category. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.3871 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths for the elderly population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.91 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Nurse Quality
In the last category, this facility also was given an impressive nursing rating, with a grade of B+. This completed a very impressive report card. There are quite a few subcategories included in this grade. Many of these data points relate to staffing levels. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients sustaining falls leading to serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home in the state.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are often linked to lower quality nursing care. Better nursing care can limit the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Closer supervision can minimize the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better