Thomasville Health & Rehab

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to point out that this facility received a great long-term care score. In fact, it received one of our most impressive grades in that area with a grade of A. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 95.364235 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its short-term care rating, which is not an impressive grade. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

The next category we assessed was nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category, which is a very poor score. This is obviously a significant concern. In computing our nursing grades, we factor in both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This particular place averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This number is far below average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these scores pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.