Treutlen County Health and Rehabilitation

To pair with its favorable overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for inspections. Our inspection grades are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. Our nursing score is mostly associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on our next area, we awarded this nursing home a score of A- for its long-term care grade. This is a very strong grade. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.63946 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The fourth category we scored was short-term care, where this facility was given a B+. This topped off a very strong profile. Only a select few nursing homes earned a B+ or higher in in each area we assessed. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This area is considered to be a fair assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.