Northeast Atlanta Health and Rehabilitation Center

Northeast Atlanta Health and Rehabilitation Center is located in Atlanta, Georgia. The city provides a variety of available nursing homes. Featuring an overall rating of A-, this nursing home is ranked among the more impressive nursing homes we assessed. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top third of all facilities in the country. If you look further down this page, you will see this facility's category ratings, which are also quite good.

We also wanted to emphasize that this facility has received nearly flawless inspections recently. We awarded them an A in this category. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many elite grades, this facility was given a top-shelf short-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A- in this area. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home, which as an area this facility performed much more favorably. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 72.4 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

This facility also received a very strong long-term care grade. Indeed, this ended up being this facility's third best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 91.857506 percent of its patients, which is slightly lower than we were hoping for. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 2.12 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than most nursing homes due to it having some more complicated patients.

Switching gears to our last category, this nursing home was awarded a highly favorable nursing grade. Even though this is not quite as dominant as several of its other category grades, this remains one of our more favorable scores a facility can receive. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided with better nursing care.