Nhc Healthcare Rossville

Nhc Healthcare Rossville is one of only two available facilities in Rossville, Georgia. We awarded this facility an A- overall grade, ranking it in the top third of all facilities in the nation. We can not find many negative things to say about this place. Its scores are as good as they get. The best part of this nursing home's impressive report card was its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph

We also wanted to emphasize that this facility has received near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its high-end assessments in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A for our long-term care rating. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.08 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a significantly better hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.

In addition, this nursing home also received favorable short-term care scores this year. Indeed, we awarded them one of our higher scores in that category, with a score of B. Our short-term care scores are believed to be most critical for those requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home performed better in this area than in its staffing levels. This place fared as well as just about any facility in the nation with 63.1 percent of its residents returning home.

Moving on to our fourth category, this facility was given an acceptable nursing rating. Even though this wasn't nearly as strong as some of its other category grades, this is still not a terrible score. There are a number of criteria included in this area. Many of these criteria reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. This nursing home performed admirably in this datapoint. Avoiding major falls is often a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls can be prevented if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its patients.