Tattnall Healthcare Center is a facility located in Reidsville, Georgia, a city with a total of 9,703 people. This nursing home was given an extremely poor overall grade based on the data we assessed. As far as we can see, you'd be better off to avoid of this place. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
Tattnall Healthcare Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
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Facility Inspections
This place did not receive any favorable scores. Its most concerning grade may be its inspection rating, where it received an F. For places with bad inspection ratings, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular facility had 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we need to point out that this place was assessed large government fines in recent years amounting to more than $100,000. This often suggests that a nursing home's bad track record has been an issue for more than one year.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility ended up receiving a an abysmal score in our long-term care category. It was given a lowly F in this category. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were disappointed to learn that this facility vaccinated only 38.60294 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.
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Short-term Care Quality
Another unfortunate development is the F this nursing home was given in the area of short-term care. With our short-term care score, we strive to create a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
The last area we rated is nursing. This nursing home was given a poor grade of F in this area. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses worked with residents, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This place performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Tattnall Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Tattnall Healthcare Center, 10.37% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are an barometer of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Tattnall Healthcare Center, 3.17% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents that experienced a fall which caused serious injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Tattnall Healthcare Center, 3.19% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often associated with poor nursing care. Better hygiene protocols can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Tattnall Healthcare Center, 18.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Tattnall Healthcare Center, 21.34% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Tattnall Healthcare Center, 5.28% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. Many believe this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Tattnall Healthcare Center, 93.36% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Tattnall Healthcare Center, 16.65% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Tattnall Healthcare Center, 20.73% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Tattnall Healthcare Center, 1.6 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Tattnall Healthcare Center, 20.73 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Tattnall Healthcare Center, 11.5 Percentage of Patients
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge patient care during rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Optim Medical Center - TattnallCritical Access Hospitals 0.21 miles away247 S Main Street Reidsville Georgia 30453Proprietary(912) 557-1000
- Evans Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.57 miles away200 N River Street Claxton Georgia 30417Government - Hospital District or Authority(912) 739-5105
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc Claxton Dialysis Center13.3 miles away312 North River Street Claxton Georgia 30417Dialysis Stations: 16 (912) 739-9449
- Vidalia First Street Dialysis18 miles away906 E First Street Vidalia Georgia 30474Dialysis Stations: 21 (912) 538-8908
- Fms Toombs County Dialysis19.92 miles away105 Melvin Page Dr Vidalia Georgia 30474Dialysis Stations: 11 (912) 537-0367