The Bell Minor Home
2200 Old Hamilton Place Ne, Gainesville GA 30507 · (770) 532-2066 · 78.26% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
The Bell Minor Home is in Gainesville, Georgia. This city has a population of 120,577 people. This nursing home is a solid facility, with an overall grade of B-. This facility has some things working in its favor. The best part of this nursing home's report card is its exemplary inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 104 Beds
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For profit - Individual
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To pair with its relatively modest overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for its inspection grade. This grade is far more impressive than its overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
We also would like to point out that this facility was awarded a strong long-term care grade. Indeed, it received one of our most impressive grades in that category with a grade of A. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.97611 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. The last datapoint we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.14 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
We awarded this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care rating. This is not a score to write home about. Short-term care scores are meaningful for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home a bit in this area, with just 48.3 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home's weakest category is nursing, which is the final category we scored. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category. Even with some solid grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless alarming so we would like to to point it out. In computing a facility's nursing score, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents and the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home offered just 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This number is significantly below the national average. In addition to its below average nursing hour totals, this nursing home also received suboptimal scores in many of the quality-based metrics we considered in determining our nursing grades. We found that more of this place's patients experienced falls leading to major injury.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Bell Minor Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . Falls which result in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. However, this metric could be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients who were given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to having more patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
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. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percentage of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better