Pruitthealth - Savannah

Pruitthealth - Savannah is located in Savannah, Georgia. The city has 236,823 people. With an overall grade of C, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. Based on our assessment, there are certainly much worse places out there. One of the major highlights of this facility's report card is its remarkable inspection reports, which is addressed in the next section.

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection scores weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

In addition, we also would like to note that this nursing home received strong short-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our better grades in this category, with a B. This proved to be the facility's second highest score. Short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home. We found that this nursing home was better than average in this area with 53.6 percent of its residents returning home.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing score. In fact, we gave this facility an D. In computing our nursing grades, we assess both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. This facility also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.

The final category we looked at was long-term care, which was this facility's worst area. It received an abysmal F for this category, which is certainly concerning. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 96.46302 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility also was not as bad as we expected at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 3.6 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't bad due to it having some more complex patients.