Ridgewood Manor Health And Rehabilitation

Services and Housing Options

Assisted Living, Nursing Home

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Ridgewood Manor Health And Rehabilitation Description

Ranking

Ranking in City: 4 out of 4 communities in Dalton

Ranking in State: 516 out of 636 communities in GA

Information from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

This nursing community has been given an overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars by The Center for Medicare and Medicaid receiving 2 stars on its health inspection, 1 stars on its quality measures rating, and 3 stars on its staffing rating. Within the quality measure rating, each facility is given a short-stay rating and a long-stay rating. This facility received a 1-star short-stay rating and a 1-star long-stay rating. This nursing home is certified by Medicare and Medicaid and was first approved to provide Medicare and Medicaid services on 06/01/87 and is run by a non profit organization. It is a large-sized nursing community with 102 nursing beds. Currently, there are 76 residents within the nursing community. Be advised these resident occupancy numbers are not always up to date and are collected from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services website periodically.

Alerts from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

This facility has been given 1 fine by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for a total of $7,345.00. The facility has had 4 substantiated complaints reported in the last 3 years that resulted in a citation.

Overall Ratings

Ridgewood Manor Health And Rehabilitation is a nursing home that is unfortunately underperforming in a number of areas. It holds a 1-star overall rating, placing it in the lowermost rank possible and in the bottom 20% of all facilities in terms of overall ratings. This indicates that it performs below the state average. Moreover, when considering health inspections, the facility only carries a 2-star rating. This presents it as part of the bottom 40% of all nursing homes according to health inspection ratings, again falling short of the state average. In terms of quality rating, Ridgewood Manor Health And Rehabilitation could not fare any worse, as it possesses a 1-star rating – the lowest attainable. This alarming score positions the facility within the bottom 10% of all establishments in this regard, demonstrating a quality rating below the state average.

Staff Ratings

Ridgewood Manor Health and Rehabilitation is a nursing home that prides itself on its staffing hours, particularly in providing nursing aid. The facility ensures ample nursing assistance by offering 2.18 nursing aid staffing hours per resident per day, surpassing the state's average of 1.97. This puts Ridgewood Manor in the top 50% of nursing homes in terms of nursing aid provisions. The institution also prioritizes LPN staffing, with 0.89 hours per resident per day, despite being slightly below the state's average of 1.03, Ridgewood remains in the upper half of facilities. However, the home could improve in areas such as RN staffing and licensed staffing, where they fall below average and in the bottom 40% among facilities, with 0.45 and 1.34 hours per resident per day respectively. Lastly, physical therapist staffing at Ridgewood Manor gravely needs attention, as it is in the bottom 20% of facilities, only supplying 0.01 hours per resident per day compared to the state's average of 0.05.

Covid Data

Ridgewood Manor Health And Rehabilitation nursing home stands in the lower half of facilities based on the percentage of residents up to date with the latest vaccinations. Despite this categorization, it has a slightly higher resident vaccination rate compared to the state average, recording a rate of 60.7% versus the state's 59.9%. However, when it comes to the staff's vaccination rate, Ridgewood Manor falls within the bottom 30% of facilities. Their staff vaccination rate is substantially lower than the state average, with only 5.1% of their staff up to date with the latest vaccinations compared to the state average of 19.8%.

Quality Measures

The Ridgewood Manor Health and Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home with the lowest possible quality measure rating of one star, performs poorly in several key areas of resident care. Its ranks in the bottom 10% of facilities when it comes to the dispensation of antianxiety or hypnotic medication, with a rate of 33.89%, far exceeding the state's average of 20.44%. Likewise, it falls within the bottom 20% for antipsychotic medication distribution, at a rate of 22.73%, higher than the state's average of 18.37%. Conversely, the center sits in the top 40% of facilities concerning weight loss issues among residents. The percentage of residents losing too much weight is lower here at 4.8%, compared to the state's average of 6.52%. Despite these discrepancies, the Ridgewood Manor must endeavor to increase care quality and better manage medication distribution.

Emergency and Hospitalization Quality Measures

Ridgewood Manor Health and Rehabilitation, a nursing home facility, falls within the lower 40% of facilities in relation to hospitalizations per 1000 days, with a rate of 1.98, higher than the state's average of 1.78. Furthermore, the facility is also in the bottom 30% of institutions regarding outpatient emergency department visits per 1000 days, with a rate of 1.51, outdoing the state's average of 1.16. It has been observed that 14.94% of short-stay residents at Ridgewood Manor have had outpatient emergency department visits, situating the home in the bottom 30% when compared to other facilities, and surpassing the state's proportion of 12.21%. Contrarily, the nursing home excels in the category of short stay residents who were rehospitalized after a nursing home admission, belonging to the top 40% of facilities. The rate stands at 19.11%, which is lower than the state's proportion of 22.62%.

Licensing

This community is licensed by the state of GA. It is a large-sized community with 102 total beds.

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