Montezuma Health Care Center

Montezuma Health Care Center is the only nursing home located in Montezuma, Georgia. This nursing home received an overall grade of C, which is a good rating. Based on our analysis, this nursing home has some redeeming qualities. One of the major highlights of this facility's profile is its exemplary inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

We also gave this nursing home a strong grade in long-term care. This facility received a B in this area, which turns out to be one of our more impressive grades. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 96 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a life threatening illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. The last datapoint we looked at is the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 2.41 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our nursing rating weighs a handful of components, but the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing scores also weigh quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed above average in this area.

Turning to our final category, this nursing home did not perform well. With an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is this nursing home's weakest grade. In our short-term care category, we strive to craft a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 29.4 percent of its residents returning home.