Pruitthealth - Moultrie

Pruitthealth - Moultrie is a facility located in Moultrie, Georgia. This city has a total of 34,219 people. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B-. A grade in this range requires some solid scores. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Moultrie. The best part of this place's profile was its exemplary inspection score. We discuss inspections in the next section.

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of A+. This is a much better score than the place's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in nursing. This facility earned a grade of B+ in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our nursing grade is primarily based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Georgia in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning a resident more frequently.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's third highest score was long-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 93.30709 percent of its residents. This is slightly less than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.47 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

The final category we assessed is short-term care, turned out to be this nursing home's weakest category. We gave this facility a D in that area. This is one of just a couple of weak links in a very solid profile. In computing these short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 31.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.