Zebulon Park Health and Rehabilitation
343 Plantation Way, Macon GA 31210 · (478) 238-4000 · 95% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Zebulon Park Health and Rehabilitation is a small non-profit nursing home located in Macon, Georgia. This facility received an overall grade of B, which is a good rating. This nursing home proved to be one of the better facilities in Macon. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 66 Beds
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Non profit - Other
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. 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.
Short-term Care Quality
We also gave this nursing home a grade of A- for our short-term care score. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is typically a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. One reason for this place's strong rating in this area is that it offers a substantially larger volume of physical therapist hours to its patients than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in the nation with 62.9 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our more positive grades in our long-term care category as well, with a B. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 94.630875 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.69 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the fourth category, we awarded this nursing home a D in our nursing category. This was the facility's least impressive category score. Sadly, this category pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. Our nursing rating analyzes many data points, but the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. Unfortunately, this place also did not fare as well as we hoped in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Zebulon Park Health and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have had falls which resulted in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry argue that the ability to move around is important for patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better