Oconee Health and Rehabilitation

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home fared well in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we gave it a grade of A- for that area, which turns out to be one of our best grades. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 93.233086 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat below what we anticipated but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our nursing score consists of quite a few subcategories, however, the main one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we scored is short-term care. This facility was given a strong short-term care rating this year, with a grade of B-. Even though this wasn't nearly as dominant as several of its other scores, this remains a respectable score in this area. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.