PruittHealth - Macon

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection scores are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

We also awarded this nursing home a middle of the road grade in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a C. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The more important thing is determining what effect this had on quality of care. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of D. The nursing score includes numerous datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we graded is long-term care, which is this nursing home's worst category. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category, which is certainly very concerning. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated just 83.49328 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.