Rockmart Health

With an address in Rockmart, Georgia, Rockmart Health is the sole nursing home located in the area. This is a fine facility. We gave it an overall grade of B, which is a very solid grade. At the end of the day, this facility looks like a good fit for most people. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive report card was its inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

An additional strong feature for this facility is that it received a favorable long-term care grade. Indeed, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 4.23 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this area, this statistic may be skewed for some nursing homes based on the medical complexity of patients.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. There are a variety of factors included in this category. Most of these datapoints reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This place performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next area we assessed is short-term care. We gave it a C in this area. This is a decent grade in this category. Short-term care grades are generally used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 39.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.