The Place at Pooler
508 South Rogers Street, Pooler GA 31322 · (912) 748-6840 · 65.98% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
With an address in Pooler, Georgia, The Place at Pooler is the sole facility we were able to find in this city. With an overall grade of D, this is a relatively poor nursing home. At the end of the day, we'd struggle to recommend this place. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its strong inspection rating. You can continue reading to learn more about inspections and other category grades
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 122 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Partnership
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we were fairly low on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility a solid score in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were concerned by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated only 89.454544 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. With 1.73 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this place is also below the national average.
Nurse Quality
This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This place offered a meager 2.6 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to its weak nursing hours, this facility also received poor marks in several of the quality-based measures we considered in determining our nursing scores. We found that more of this facility's patients sustained falls which led to major injury.
Short-term Care Quality
The last area we analyzed is short-term care, in which this nursing home was given a rock bottom score in this category as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area, which is definitely very concerning. Our short-term care grades are believed to be more meaningful for patients in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Given its poor grade, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home provided substantially fewer registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 30.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Place at Pooler Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term care patients who suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a fall which resulted in major injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom. Some experts would argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of 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 datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better