Winthrop Health and Rehabilitation

Winthrop Health and Rehabilitation is one of seven available nursing homes in Rome, Georgia. Sporting an overall grade of B-, this is likely a decent facility. Based on the data we reviewed, there are certainly far worse facilities out there. The best part of this nursing home's report card was its stellar inspection rating. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

We want to point out that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this facility a favorable grade in long-term care. This nursing home received a B+ in this area, which is one of our more favorable grades. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.35065 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.46 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. Nursing scores are tied to nurse staffing levels. This facility provides only 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below the national average. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.

The last area we scored was short-term care, was this facility's weakest category. We awarded this facility a D in this category. This is one of the few dings of a strong profile. Our short-term care scores are important for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. In this place's case, we found that it provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. The last metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 43.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care grade.