PruittHealth - Moultrie

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this category. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor dings aren't the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility an C. Our nursing grade consists of a handful of factors, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, while this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this subcategory.

The third area we looked at is short-term care, where this facility received a grade of C in this category. Short-term care grades are typically used to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

The last area we graded was long-term care. This facility was given a C in this area. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated 86.979164 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points below what we expected. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.