Pine Knoll Nursing & Rehab Center

Pine Knoll Nursing & Rehab Center is a large facility located in Carrollton, Georgia. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road score. Based on our ratings, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. The best part of this place's profile was its stellar inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in this category with an A+. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in long-term care. This nursing home received a B in this area, which is one of our better scores. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.74811 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. With 1.73 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility is close to average in this area.

This facility also earned a strong nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a score of F in this area. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses commit to residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics hurt this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.

The final category we rated was short-term care, which proved to be this facility's least impressive area. We gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is certainly a major disappointment. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is often a fair measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Not surprisingly, we learned that this nursing home offers far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average nursing home. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 36.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.