Pruitthealth - Macon

Pruitthealth - Macon is a very-large nursing home located in Macon, Georgia. It looks like this facility is a subpar facility. A grade in this range indicates we found some red flags. Although this score isn't too far off the city grade in Macon which is a C, you still ought to be able to find a better option. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its strong inspection rating. You can continue reading to learn more about inspections and other category grades

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that area, which is one of our highest scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

We awarded this facility just a D for our long-term care score and that actually wound up as its next highest category. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 91.37691 percent of its residents. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place fared poorly with 3.3 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, this statistic is nearly double the national average.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. Unfortunately, this facility also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than twice the national average in this metric. This is alarming when you consider that many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of earning a poor nursing grade.

The next area we rated was short-term care. This facility received an abysmal grade of F in that category. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. With its score in this category, we were not stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 19.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.