Rockmart Health

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection scores are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was given an A+ long-term care grade, rendering it one of the few nursing homes to be given multiple A+ category grades. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.29578 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths for the elderly population. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 4.13 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this admittedly wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this area, this statistic may be skewed for some nursing homes based on some of the preexisting medical conditions of patients.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. There are a host of criteria included in this category. Many of the datapoints are tied to nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last category we rated is short-term care. We awarded this nursing home an acceptable grade in that area, with a C. Although this isn't on par with some of this facility's other scores, it is nevertheless not a terrible score. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. The final measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 41.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.