Stevens Park Health and Rehabilitation

Stevens Park Health and Rehabilitation turns out to be one of many nursing home options to select from in Augusta, Georgia. We awarded this facility world class overall score of A. Consequently, it is ranked among the highest graded facilities in Augusta, which has some quality facilities. We really can't say enough favorable things about this facility. Headlining this place's remarkable profile is its inspection rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many high-end scores, this nursing home was given a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a score of A in that area. Short-term care grades are typically used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. We were extremely impressed to find that this facility offers its residents substantially more physical therapist hours than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 67.2 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

This facility also was awarded a very impressive long-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be this facility's third strongest category score. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A-. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.27586 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to our last category, this nursing home was given an acceptable nursing score. Even though this isn't nearly as good as a few of its other category grades, this is truly not a poor grade. The nursing rating considers a variety of data points. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This place provides 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is better than average. In determining our scores, we add more weight to hours performed by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as good measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.