Signature Healthcare of Marietta

With an address in Marietta, Georgia, Signature Healthcare of Marietta is one of seven facilities in the city. This nursing home received a concerning overall grade of D in our grading scheme. This wasn't the worse facility we graded, however, we'd still be very reluctant to recommend it. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, you can continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

While this facility's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually received a very good score in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Another one of this nursing home's higher category scores came in the area of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B. It actually performed better than most facilities in this area. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Georgia in this area with 65.1 percent of its patients returning home.

This nursing home's next highest area came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a C. With our long-term care grade, we analyze the amount of care offered by a nursing home, along with a handful of qualitative statistics. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 78.52349 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.69 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this figure is somewhat concerning, this number may be skewed for some facilities based on the preexisting medical conditions of patients.

This nursing home's worst area was nursing, which is the last area we looked at. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of D. Our nursing rating is largely based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These statistics pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.