Page 11 of Best Nursing Homes in Georgia

Overview of PruittHealth Augusta

PruittHealth Augusta in Augusta, GA, provides round-the-clock skilled nursing, palliative care, and short-term respite stays alongside access to hospice programs. Skilled nursing care delivers continuous licensed medical oversight for residents managing chronic conditions or recovering from acute illness. Palliative services concentrate on symptom management and comfort, while temporary respite stays offer short-term accommodations to relieve family caregivers.

The 100-bed residence offers both private and semi-private rooms, allowing short-term rehabilitation patients and long-term residents to select their preferred living arrangements. Direct nursing care averages 3 hours and 23 minutes per resident each day across 24-hour shifts. On-site features include a WanderGuard™ security system for resident safety, scheduled religious services, organized recreational programming, and an outdoor gas grill area for family gatherings.

Accepted payment options encompass Medicare, Medicaid, and private funds. Medicare handles qualifying post-hospital rehabilitation, while Medicaid assists eligible long-term care residents.

Prospective families considering skilled nursing support, rehabilitation, or hospice integration can reach out to PruittHealth Augusta to verify room availability or schedule a tour.

Riverside Health Care Center offers nursing home, hospice care, respite care, and skilled nursing in Covington, GA. Skilled nursing and nursing home care provide ongoing nursing support with 24 hour staffing. Hospice care focuses on comfort, while respite care provides a short stay when a usual caregiver needs time away. This combination of ongoing nursing, short term rehabilitation, hospice, and respite services fits someone whose needs range from temporary recovery to continued nursing or comfort focused support.

Riverside Health Care Center has 159 beds, with 97% occupancy, meaning nearly all beds are currently in use and availability is limited. Rehabilitation services and short term rehab give residents a temporary setting for recovery. IV therapy, wound care, PEG tube care, and outpatient dialysis address specific medical needs through the facility’s programs. Dementia management, pain management, and hospice care support residents with cognitive, comfort focused, or symptom management needs.

Medicare and private pay are accepted. Medicare can cover short term skilled care after a hospital stay, while private pay means the resident or family pays directly. Total nurse staffing is 3 hours and 13 minutes per resident per day, representing the daily nursing time allocated to each resident. Ms Starla Gleaton serves as the administrator.

Lillian G Carter Health and Rehabilitation is a nursing home in Plains, Georgia, offering secured memory care. Skilled nursing care is available on site around the clock. The secured memory care setting provides supervision in an environment designed for residents who may be at risk of wandering, and may suit someone living with dementia who needs a secured, supervised setting.

The center has 100 beds, with both private and shared rooms. Shared arrangements may suit someone who prefers companionship, while private rooms provide a single living space. Total nurse staffing is 2 hours and 43 minutes per resident per day, representing the daily nursing time allocated to each resident.

Medicaid, Medicare, and private pay are accepted, giving families public coverage options alongside self funded payment. Medicare applies to brief skilled care after a hospital stay, rather than long term residence. Rehabilitation and restorative programs are available, and telemedicine allows medical visits to take place remotely.

A professional staffed beauty and barber salon provides grooming on site. Landscaped outdoor sitting areas and a courtyard offer places to sit outdoors. With a Walk Score of 41, most errands require a car or a ride, so a resident who no longer drives would need transportation for those errands.

Hospice care, respite care, memory care, skilled nursing, and nursing home care make up the offer at Cambridge Post Acute Care Center in Snellville, GA. Ongoing care and licensed coverage at every hour are the same claim measured twice, once in months and once in hours. Memory care answers a physical problem with a physical arrangement, a locked setting with supervision, for a resident inclined to wander. Hospice adds comfort and support once a life is ending.

Time away is the whole specification for respite, a short stay covering the period a usual caregiver is not there. Rehabilitation services, short-term rehab included, give recovery after illness, injury, or a hospital stay a place to happen. Long-term care covers the residents who need continuing support instead.

Needs anywhere from a short recovery to ongoing nursing or memory care fit here. 144 beds are on record.

Medicare and private pay are the two accepted routes, and the first is bounded where the second is not. Medicare may cover a brief course of skilled care after a hospital discharge, while private pay is direct payment carrying no such limit. Nurse staffing time per resident tallies 3 hours and 3 minutes a day. Frederick Youngman is the administrator here.

Fort Valley Health and Rehab, in Fort Valley, GA, is licensed for nursing home care, hospice care, skilled nursing, and respite. Licensed nursing does not thin out on a Sunday or a holiday. Comfort at the very end is where hospice care points.

Respite handles a caregiver who has to travel or recover. Most families have never tried leaving and do not know what a week off is worth until they take one. Seventy-five beds are licensed here.

Short-term rehabilitation covers a resident working back from an illness or a hospital stay, measured in weeks with leaving as the target. Every other program name describes a stay that ends: Short-stay, Transitional, Palliative, Comfort Care, and Specialized Services. Hospice, palliative, and comfort care are three entries facing one direction, sorted by how far along someone is.

Two situations fit: skilled nursing or rehabilitation for a limited period, and temporary care through respite. Three hours and 38 minutes of nursing land on each resident’s day. Payment runs on Medicare, on Medicaid, or on private funds, and Bill McMichael is the administrator.

Overview of Pruitthealth – Griffin

Skilled nursing and hospice care are the pair on offer at Pruitthealth, Griffin in Griffin, GA. Licensed nurses on site answer who, and around the clock answer when, and hospice care needs both of those answered. Hospice is on the care list and again among the named programs, so it is delivered here rather than arranged somewhere else. Together the two suit a resident needing ongoing nursing support while receiving hospice.

The community has 69 beds. Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay are all accepted, and which route applies is decided outside this building.

A resident’s daily share of nursing time is 3 hours and 22 minutes. Therapy comes under rehabilitation services. Grooming is handled by a salon on site, and the administrator is Sheila Weed.

Rockdale Healthcare Center provides nursing home, hospice care, respite care, and skilled nursing in Conyers, GA. Nursing home and long term care support residents who need ongoing care, while skilled nursing provides licensed nursing care on site around the clock. Hospice care supports residents receiving end of life care, and respite care offers a short stay when someone’s usual caregiver needs temporary relief.

Short term rehabilitation is also available. It gives a resident a place to recover and work toward returning to their prior level of function after an illness, injury, or hospital stay. With both short term rehabilitation and long term care, Rockdale Healthcare Center may be a good fit for someone who needs temporary recovery support or ongoing nursing care.

The community has 102 beds. Medicare and private pay are accepted, so eligible residents may use Medicare coverage or pay directly for care. Total nurse staffing is 3 hours and 2 minutes per resident per day, representing the daily hands on nursing time allocated to each resident. Obadiah Smith serves as the administrator.

The care-type list for Fort Gaines Health and Rehab in Fort Gaines, GA, includes respite care, skilled nursing, hospice care, and nursing home care. Of those, hospice care is the one aimed entirely at comfort. Respite care is a short stay, planned with a return home in mind, for a family caregiver who needs time away.

Sixty beds make up the building, and a resident there receives 2 hours and 44 minutes of nursing time on an average day. Rehabilitation Services and Short-Term Rehab are both on the service list for someone working toward recovery. Short-Stay and Transitional programs cover temporary care while a person’s health or living situation is changing.

Palliative and comfort Care programs focus on relief from symptoms, and palliative care can continue alongside treatment of the illness itself. Ciara Brown is the administrator, and the home takes Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay. It fits someone who needs skilled nursing, a spell of short-term rehabilitation, or respite care.

Led by administrator Gregory Forbes, East Lake Arbor is a nursing home in the Oakhurst neighborhood of Decatur, Georgia. The two-story community offers skilled nursing care, hospice care, and respite care and has served residents for 9 years. It has 103 beds, providing an established setting for both short-term and long-term care.

Skilled nursing, wound care, rehabilitation, personal care, concierge services, and companionship are all part of the community’s care. Residents receive an average of about 2 hours and 28 minutes of nursing care each day from registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and nurse aides. An active resident council also allows residents to share feedback on community policies, activities, and quality of life.

The community accepts Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay, giving families several ways to cover the cost of care. Residents stay an average of about 180 days. The population is a mix of short-term rehabilitation and longer-term nursing care. East Lake Arbor has an occupancy rate of 82%.

State inspections by Georgia’s Department of Community Health have mainly focused on care planning, documentation, infection control, resident rights, call-light response times, and building maintenance, including pest management. Families touring East Lake Arbor may want to ask how these areas are managed as part of the community’s daily operations . The Oakhurst neighborhood has a Walk Score of 63, which is moderately walkable. Some nearby shops and services can be reached on foot, but other errands and outings require a short drive.

Pine Knoll Nursing & Rehab Ctr is a nursing home in Carrollton, GA that provides skilled nursing care. Skilled nursing provides licensed nursing care on site around the clock, while long-term care supports residents who need ongoing nursing assistance. The community may be a good fit for someone who needs rehabilitation or ongoing nursing support, including tracheostomy care.

Pine Knoll Nursing & Rehab Ctr has 122 beds. Advanced rehabilitation and an on-site therapy center give residents access to therapy without arranging transportation elsewhere, and specialty clinical programs include tracheostomy care. Therapeutic activities, enrichment and social programs, and daily activities and events provide scheduled programming for residents.

Restaurant-style dining provides meals prepared by a chef, while the on-site beauty salon and barbershop give residents access to grooming services within the community. Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay are accepted, giving families those payment routes for covered care or direct payment. Total nurse staffing is 3h 8m per resident per day, representing the daily nurse staffing time assigned across each resident’s care.

Ms. Melissa Murphy serves as the administrator.