Senior Care Beltline

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

In addition, we also would like to note that this nursing home was awarded strong short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more favorable grades in this area, with a B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second highest grade. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home also received a strong grade in our nursing category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. Our nursing grade assesses quite a few factors, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we rated is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in that area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Long-term care grades focus on a nursing home's personal care instead of the highly skilled therapy and healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.31035 percent of its residents. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.