Pruitthealth - Palmyra

Pruitthealth - Palmyra is located in Albany, Georgia. The city has 101,511 people. With an overall score of F, we consider this to be a lower end facility. Based on our assessment, you'd be better off to avoid of this place. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is nursing, which is addressed in the next section.

Even though this facility's overall grade was terrible, it didn't perform as badly in the area of nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- for that area. We assessed the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed admirably in this metric. Avoiding major falls is often an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility offers enough nurses to assist its residents.

Unfortunately, this facility's second most respectable category is short-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this area, it still fared somewhat badly. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be more important for folks requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. With its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 38.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Sadly, this facility received a grade of just D in our inspection category. This is well below average grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. We suggest you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

Turning to the final area, we awarded this nursing home a D in the area of long-term care. This was the nursing home's weakest category rating. Facilities that don't fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated only 81.68317 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.19 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.