PruittHealth - Fitzgerald is in Fitzgerald, Georgia, a city with a total of 18,687 people. With an overall rating of B-, this looks like a middle of the road facility. Based on our assessment, this place would be a solid choice for quite a few people. This facility is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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PruittHealth - Fitzgerald
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
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Facility Inspections
The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection grade. Its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A+. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's short-term care rating is one of its more favorable grades. The facility was given a grade of B- in this category. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more meaningful for people in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below average.
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Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our nursing rating assesses a handful of components, but the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its patients.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we scored was long-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in this category. Our long-term care grade is used to measure a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 98.46154 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
PruittHealth - Fitzgerald Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In PruittHealth - Fitzgerald, 11.76% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term care residents which suffer from pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a reliable indicator of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In PruittHealth - Fitzgerald, 1.92% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure indicates the percent of long-term care patients who had a fall which caused severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In PruittHealth - Fitzgerald, 1.18% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who experienced UTI's. UTI's may be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In PruittHealth - Fitzgerald, 8.72% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These medications may be used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In PruittHealth - Fitzgerald, 13.19% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents which were given antianxiety medication. These medications are typically used to treat residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In PruittHealth - Fitzgerald, 4.03% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who are showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In PruittHealth - Fitzgerald, 98.14% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In PruittHealth - Fitzgerald, 4.44% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of deterioration of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In PruittHealth - Fitzgerald, 5.71% of Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels. Many in the industry would argue that the ability to move around is critical to patients physical and mental well-being.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In PruittHealth - Fitzgerald, 5.71% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In PruittHealth - Fitzgerald, 92.18% of Resident
Measures the percentage of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts believe that this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Dorminy Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.28 miles away200 Perry House Road, Box 1447 Fitzgerald Georgia 31750Government - Local(229) 424-7100