Tattnall Healthcare Center

Tattnall Healthcare Center is a nursing home located in Reidsville, Georgia. This city has a population of 9,703 people. Sporting an overall grade of C, this is a decent facility. This facility has some things working in its favor. The best part of this nursing home's report card is its stellar inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

To pair with its relatively modest overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than its overall score. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facility also performed favorably in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Not many nursing homes performed more favorably in this area. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 96.451614 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.59 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This nursing home also earned a strong nursing rating. In fact, we awarded it a F in this area. Our nursing rating is based on several factors, however, the most important one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 2.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an alarmingly low total. In addition to its weak nursing hour totals, this nursing home also received poor marks in several of the quality-based metrics we considered in determining our nursing scores. We found that more of this facility's residents sustained falls leading to serious injury.

The last area we scored was short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this area, which is an abysmal score. This is certainly a major disappointment. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. With a grade of this caliber in this category, we weren't stunned to learn this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we assess. In fact, it provided substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 24.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.