Southland Healthcare and Rehab Center
606 Simmons St, Dublin GA 31040 · (478) 272-1666 · 66.26% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Southland Healthcare and Rehab Center is one of a mere three facilities located in Dublin, Georgia. With an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. While the city grade in Dublin which is also just a D, you still should be able to do better. Nevertheless, this nursing home surprisingly performed well in our inspections category, which you can read more about below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 126 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we gave this nursing home a horrible overall score, we gave it an A- for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid nursing homes that had a long list of deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility wound up receiving a an abysmal score in our short-term care category. It was given a lowly F in this category. In crafting these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 43.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating consists of quite a few datapoints, but the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular facility averaged just 2.9 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This number is significantly below the national average. Unfortunately, this place also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign in light of the fact that many pressure ulcers could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we rated is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a poor grade in this category as well. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is definitely somewhat alarming. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. One of the data points we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 88.196724 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. While it had 1.89 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric wasn't bad since it had some more complicated patients. This is its best score in this category
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Southland Healthcare and Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall resulting in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better