Pruitthealth - Toomsboro

With an address in Toomsboro, Georgia, Pruitthealth - Toomsboro is the sole nursing home located in the area. We gave it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack score. In our view, this facility looks like a good fit for quite a few people. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's report card is its exemplary inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection grade. Its inspection grade was far superior to its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave it an A+. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. It does not appear that we have deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also excelled in the area of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. When calculating a facility's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses commit to patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This facility averages just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is well below average. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

The last category we looked at is short-term care, which proved to be this facility's least impressive category. We gave this facility a D in that category. Of course, this category pulled down the facility's overall profile to some degree. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 34.6 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below average.