Nhc Healthcare Ft Oglethorpe

One of the reasons this place is a strong nursing home is that it earned a very impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections is its best category grade. In this area, we awarded it an A. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home fared well in our long-term care category. As a result, we awarded it a score of A- for that area, which happens to be one of our better grades. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 87.70302 percent of its patients, which is slightly less than we anticipated. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this was not one of this facility's strong suits. We awarded it a grade of D in this category. Clearly, this facility performed much better in the categories discussed above. Nursing ratings are mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. With a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this place's nurse staffing levels were far below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we graded is short-term care, which was this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in that area. Of course, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall profile a bit. Short-term care grades are often employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.